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by **Don Gra** » Sun, 13 Apr 1997 04:00:00

I've been experimenting setting up PLIP on two Linux boxes (following
the PLIP mini How-To. I've been succesful to a point. Both machines
have PLIP running (as reported by ifconfig) and route -n on each machine
shows the IP of the other machine. I can also ping each machine
successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign Host').
I'm using the same cable I use for Win95 Direct Cable Connection.

Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be? I'm using kernel
2.0.29 on both boxes. Thanks!

Don Gray
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by **James Va** » Sun, 13 Apr 1997 04:00:00

On machine2, try the line:

route add default gw machine1 plip0

: I've been experimenting setting up PLIP on two Linux boxes (following
: the PLIP mini How-To. I've been succesful to a point. Both machines
: have PLIP running (as reported by ifconfig) and route -n on each machine
: shows the IP of the other machine. I can also ping each machine
: successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
: direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign Host').
: I'm using the same cable I use for Win95 Direct Cable Connection.
:
: Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be? I'm using kernel
: 2.0.29 on both boxes. Thanks!
:
: Don Gray
: (Remove NO-SPAM from email address)

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by **Dane** » Sun, 13 Apr 1997 04:00:00

> : the PLIP mini How-To. I've been succesful to a point. Both machines
> : have PLIP running (as reported by ifconfig) and route -n on each machine
> : shows the IP of the other machine. I can also ping each machine
> : successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
> : direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign Host').
> : I'm using the same cable I use for Win95 Direct Cable Connection.

Make sure that inetd is running on machine #2. That was my problem,
initially. Without inetd, the telnet daemon won't start up when machine
#1 tries to initiate a connection.

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by **Don Gr** » Tue, 15 Apr 1997 04:00:00

On Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:07:13 -0700, Don Gray

>I've been experimenting setting up PLIP on two Linux boxes (following
>the PLIP mini How-To. I've been succesful to a point. Both machines
>have PLIP running (as reported by ifconfig) and route -n on each machine
>shows the IP of the other machine. I can also ping each machine
>successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
>direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign Host').
>I'm using the same cable I use for Win95 Direct Cable Connection.

>Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be? I'm using kernel
>2.0.29 on both boxes. Thanks!

>Don Gray
>(Remove NO-SPAM from email address)

I appreciate the responses I've gotten. I've tried adding the gateway
and made sure inetd was running on both machines. I can ping in both
directions and run telnet/finger/ftp from machine 'two' to machine
'one', but just keep getting timeouts going in the other direction.
IS MY MACHINE POSSESSED!??! HELP!

Don Gray

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by **James Va** » Wed, 16 Apr 1997 04:00:00

: I appreciate the responses I've gotten. I've tried adding the gateway
: and made sure inetd was running on both machines. I can ping in both
: directions and run telnet/finger/ftp from machine 'two' to machine
: 'one', but just keep getting timeouts going in the other direction.
: IS MY MACHINE POSSESSED!??! HELP!

Using arp?

How about posting the relevant parts of ifconfig and route -n for us.

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by **Brian McCaule** » Wed, 16 Apr 1997 04:00:00

> I can also ping each machine
> successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
> direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign
> Host').

Sounds like a nameserver setup or hosts.allow problem.

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by **Don Gr** » Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:00:00

On 15 Apr 1997 20:16:29 +0100, Brian McCauley

>> I can also ping each machine
>> successfully. I can telnet from #2 to #1 but CANNOT telnet in the other
>> direction (I think it times out - 'Connection Reset By Foreign
>> Host').

>Sounds like a nameserver setup or hosts.allow problem.

That was the problem. I changed the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files
on machine 'two' and now it works. Thanks for the help!

Don Gray

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