On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:12:10PM -0600, Steve Marak wrote: > I'm sure the answer is obvious and that 98% of this list will know it, so > I'll just ask that you be gentle to yet another old VMer who is now > beginning to play with Linux. (I did search the archives, as well as a > bunch of other places, before posting. We found what looked like two other > people with the problem, but no solutions, and they haven't responded to > us.)
[...] > But when we telnet into the Linux guest from elsewhere in the network (not > on the same subnet as either the Linux guest or the VM system due to > network configuration) things get odd. We are prompted for and provide > userid and password. Having hit return after entering the password, we > then show as logged on (according to who or ps from the console). We can > enter commands and, based on various trials, they are executed just fine. > But we never see another character of output on the telnet session - no > shell prompts, no command responses, nothing. [...] > Config stuff: SuSE 7 ipl deck from the ISO CD images we downloaded (cat > /proc/version -> Linux version 2.2.16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version > 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 SMP Fri Nov 3 09:38:59 GMT 2000). Booting > under VM/ESA 2.4, using virtual CTCs for networking via the VM ip stack. > Network connectivity appears good by every test we've tried. MP3000 P30 > hardware. I bet you don't have the most recent VM TCPIP RSUs. I, further, bet your MTU size is set to 1500. Set your MTU at 1492 on both ends, or apply the RSUs, and your problem will go away. Adam
