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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: All network ports in use??
Date: 27 Nov 1996 15:08:47 -0000
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To: kinson@resolink.com (Kinson Chan ³¯ «e )
[Posted and mailed]
In article <329a57b8.136625@news.resolink.com>,
kinson@resolink.com (Kinson Chan ³¯ «e ) writes:
: Hi,
: When I tried to telnet to my FreeBSD host, it display this message
:
: ===================================
: [beta-kinson]:/home/tech/kinson>telnet 202.88.252.50
: Trying 202.88.252.50...
: Connected to 202.88.252.50
: Escape character is '^]'.on
: telnetd: All network ports in use.
: Connection closed by foreign host.
: ===================================
:
: Anybody know the reason? How to increase the network ports?
: Pls give me a mail.
It seems that the allowable network ports are /dev/tty[p-sP-S][0-9a-v]
although tty[P-S][0-9a-v] don't seem to be supported by telnetd.
If you do a "cd /dev; for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do sh ./MAKEDEV pty$f; done"
you should get all of the devices. You'll have to enable them in /etc/ttys
manually.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.