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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TWO 3Com 3c579 with FreeBSD - will that work ?
Date: 30 Nov 1995 18:38:49 GMT
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In article <1995Nov29.145958.4662@hasler.ascom.ch>,
Norbert Bladt <nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch> wrote:
> After a few hours of (idle) operation I noticed the message
> 	"ep0: Status 2002"
> on the screen.
> I wonder, what that means ! I don't know exactly when that happened, though.

I don't think it is harmful. Something has failed (look into if_ep.c) but I
don't know what  :-) You'd better ask  the FreeBSD lists  if you're worried
though. 
 
> After that "root" was not allowed to use telnet nor ftp from remote to this
> FBSD system.

> 	1. Why was "root" not prevented from logging in at the beginning ?
> 	2. Why was every connection as "root" not rejected by other systems
>  at the beginning ? 

I don't know. 

> Is there a "timeout" or any other event which will trigger this ?

Not to my knowledge.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT  -=- FreeBSD: The daemon is FREE! -=-  roberto@freebsd.org
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