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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:11:02 +0800
From:      chas <panda@peace.com.my>
To:        Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking Freebsd ???????
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980928191102.00e5abf4@mail.peace.com.my>

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> Are you sure that was a good idea?  Haveing a net connection or
>not, you will have the telnet line in your inetd.conf. 

sorry Stefan, could you expand on why this would be a bad idea ?
isn't it standard FreeBSD to have the telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf ?
other than adding tcpd, why wouldn't you do it like this ?
a little confused.

chas


>
>Fluffy, did you setup an IP for your network card?  If so then you are
>set.  If not, find out the driver id for your card (as is vx0 or ep0)
>then edit your /etc/inetd.conf like so
>
>ifconfig_ed0="inet 10.0.0.11    netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
>Then make the win9x machine default gateway your FreeBSD machine.
>Then you will be able to telnet to your FreeBSD machine by IP
>number.  If you want DNS, you can look at the FreeBSD handbook on 
>seting up a mini-DNS server.
>
>Stefan 
>
>On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, chas wrote:
>
>> I generally make it a rule to not communicate with people 
>> with names like "Mr Fluffy" but today's a holiday. :-)
>> 
>> >Hi when I installed Freebsd installed with a NIC card
>> >When I installed it 3 months ago the NIC card was detected during the 
>> >installation process.
>> >
>> >I was wondering how I can setup freebsd so I can use the win95 PC to log 
>> >onto the FREEBSD using telnet.
>> >
>> >Please tell me how it is done.
>> >
>> >Help Me :(
>> 
>> Put the following line in /etc/inetd.conf :
>> 
>> telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd
>> 
>> Then restart inetd. 
>> 
>> I'm assuming you really have networked the FreeBSD box.
>> 
>> chas
>> 
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