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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>
To:        chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking Freebsd ???????
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980928083406.423d-100000@c35486-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980928191102.00e5abf4@mail.peace.com.my>

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Because it is already there.  Adding another entry for telnet
will not make any diffrence to the person asking for help.

Stefan

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, chas wrote:

> 
> > 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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