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Re: TCP/IP, telnet and the RT...

#562
From: Chuck Karish
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 21:30
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In article <605@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM
(Steve Dyer) wrote:
|In article <16994@uhnix1.uh.edu> com6@uhnix1.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
||Hi.  We have an RT that is giving (and has always) problems with telneting
||into it.  It says that all the network devices are in use, and
||closes telnet.  Telneting *out* of the system is just hunky-dory.
||Telnet is refused even when noone is logged into the machine... :-(
|
|Make more pty's by invoking the "devices" command.  It sounds like you
|don't have any now.

Or else the ptys are present, but none are enabled.  Use `devices' to
turn the `ae' (auto-enable) option on for some of the ptys, so getty
will listen for logins on them.  Some un-enabled ptys should also be
present, for outgoing telnet and ftp sessions.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	(415) 323-9000		karish@forel.stanford.edu
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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP, telnet and the RT...
Summary: ptys must be enabled
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Date: 15 Nov 89 21:30:29 GMT
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