On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote: > I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each > other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any > problem. > But I can not telnet to the telnet server from either one. I modified the > file in /etc/xinet.d/telnet where disalbe=no and I restarted > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd ..but I am still not able to telnet. From the > machine itself, I can telnet to itself, but from other machine, it says > connection refused.
Try ssh instead. Redhat 7.2 disallows telnet from anything but the localhost by default in its firewall ruleset. You need to modify the firewall setup to allow incoming telnet as well as modifying xinetd. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
