The Telnet cards although reliable, may
not be have the latest bug fixes from HP
that the O/S version has.  Not sure HP
is maintaining them.  Network
vulnerabilities come to mind.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 11:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: jinetd


What about putting a telnet card in your DTC?  My exp. is that it's very
reliable.  Relieves processor of some overhead, doesn't need iNetD/JINETD.

-dtd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:10 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: jinetd
>
>
> Do a SHOWDEV on all your devices.
>
> If some of your Network LDEVs show as UNAVAIL SYS,
> and won't budge.  That may be an indicator of
> something bad (System Table going corrupt?)
> and it may get progressive.
>
> We've had our latest Telnet patch in for about 3
> weeks and haven't seen this problem again.  It hit
> is for about 4 months in a row ... monthly.
>
> User's that network back in and unluckily hit those
> LDEVs again probably WON'T get a colon prompt.
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simonsen, Larry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:36 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: jinetd
>
>
> We have several users which connect to the system via telnet.  Both
> yesterday and today about the same time.  The network froze.
> I looked at
> the console and there were 2 messages from the jinetd job.
> The messages
> were
> Could not initialize data path with TCP.
> I aborted the jinetd job and everything is back functioning but no new
> telnet connections can be made.  (I'm sure that they will be
> when I start
> the job.
> I looked in the installing and managing arpa services manual
> and there is no
> mention of this error.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of what the cause of this might be?
>
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