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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ping works, telnet won't Date: 4 Jul 1996 10:12:11 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4rg5dr$539@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <4r2kho$f5p@agate.berkeley.edu> <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4requk$npt@atlas.uniserve.com> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.3 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4requk$npt@atlas.uniserve.com>, nobody@uniserve.com (No Body) writes: >In article <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... >> >>bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (bob prohaska) wrote: >> >>> I've set up an elderly 386 as a dedicated slip terminal server, >>> and it seems to work admirably save for one small problem: I can >>> ping anywhere, but telnet and ftp (seemingly all things wanting I've had this happen to me, the problem turned out to be a combination serial/parallel/ide controller card with integrated 16550A uarts on it. When I swapped the card out with another garbage-grade combo card that used a different chipset things started working properly. My theory is that the sio.c driver in FreeBSD is probably written for just a few 16550A chipsets, such as SMC's, the original (Nationals) etc and hasn't been tested and debugged thoroughly on the cheaper and crummier chipsets, as a result the driver/chipset combination is dropping characters somewhere.