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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: dump produces setsockopt error. Why?
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sometimes, but not always, when using dump to do a backup between to
> FreeBSD boxes I get the error
> 
> itsdsv3.enc.edu: Connection refused
> TCP_MAXSEG setsockopt: Bad file descriptor
> 
> (itsdsv3 is the remote host, of course)
> 
> Any ideas as to what's causing this?  Both hosts are running 2.1-stable
> (just slightly pre-2.1.5-RELEASE... yes, I know, I need to upgrade).

You need to tell itsdsv3 to accept rsh connections.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major