Telnet doesn't work properly

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From: Greg Watson
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 03:17

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Apologies in advance if this is a FAQ but I did have a look first..

Quick summary of problem :

SCO UNIX 3.2.4, SCO TCP/IP 1.2, SCO NFS [1.2 ??]
    and
SCO ODT 2.0, SCO TCP/IP 1.2, SCO NFS [1.2??]

We are having major problems with sessions hanging on our SCO UNIX machines.
Although the worst problems occur on the machine running Open Desktop, we
have noticed occasional problems with all of the hosts.

We now know that most of the affected people use PCs running a package 
called ICE.TCP which is based on Telnet.

Sure enough - it is almost impossible to telnet from one of our hosts to
the ODT one using telnet, and even when we do get in, the sessions hang
quite often.

There appear to be no problems using rlogin instead.

So - why does telnet cause so many problems when rlogin works fine ?
PS - basic network appears OK, ping works fine, etc.

No STREA

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