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To: Ron Steele <ron@infi.net>
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:37:39 -0800
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>I am running two FreeBSD 2.1 machines.  One at work that is an
>internet gateway, and one home.  It seems that I can ftp to anyplace
>in the world from either machine, except to the other machine!  Both
>machines happily accept connections from other locations.  Telnet
>has simular problems - Both machines accept telnet connections,
>but not from each other.  What have I missed here?

   Set tcp_extensions=NO in /etc/sysconfig. It appears that you have a router
in-between that doesn't properly grok TCP extensions.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project