Re: tcp or telnet problem?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:49:29 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Julian wrote:

>Running redhat 6.0 with redhat's kernel 2.2.5-22.
>
>I telnet into my customer's box, they on a DSL line,
>me on a dialup.

YOUR computer is running RedHat 6.0? Or the customer's box is
running RedHat 6, or both?

>I can login, and do most things just fine. But if I do anything
>that produces more than about 1/3rd of a screen of info, my
>output goes away. I can no longet see anything I type, nor any
>output from any operation. A second telnet's ps shows that my
>commands are being executed, but all output is going in the bit
>bucket.

This sounds like what happens in the Win95 telnet program that
comes with Win95.

>I kinda think that this is probably in the kernel
>somewere because if I take the same output that would
>kill a session, and instead output it to the other pty
>(ie. "netstat -t >/dev/pty/1"), it kills that pty.
>Again, that pty continues to accept input, but the
>output is never found again.

Hmmm.

>If i do any of that from their local network, it works
>fine (a tcp latency problem?).
>
>Any ideas, or help with things to do to diagnose this
>problem would be highly appreciated as I have 5 more
>of these exact installations to do.

More details about both machines please...

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