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From: Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Getty doesnot start on 11th connection..
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:37:07 -0400
Organization: Old Dominion University
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To: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>

Tushar Patel wrote:
> I am running 2.0.5 with Boca-16. I am able to connect on all the
> 16 ports individually. But when I have 10 connection and I try yo
> log in on the 11th line that time the modem picks up the phone
> but I don't get login prompt. Getty does not start.
> As soon as the simultaneous connections drops from 10 to 9, I am
> able to connect and get login prompt to same ttyd port.
> 
> I went through the newsgroup archive I did see the same line of question
> but I could not find the answer.

I'm gonna guess on this one...
but since you can connect on any individual port, it doesn't sound to me
like getty is the problem.

I bet it might be that the GENERIC kernel has "maxusers" set to 10, so I
don't think it would let 11 on.  I can't really speak for 2.0.5, but
2.1R comes with maxusers=10 as the default.

Try rebuilding your kernel, setting maxusers to at least 16, and see
what happens.

good luck,
Jonathan