connect two linux boxes by a crossover cable

[Jason Staudenmayer]

Don't use telnet. Use ssh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Dunsavage [mailto:mikesd at frontiernet.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: connect two linux boxes by a crossover cable
> 
> 
> Yu Sun wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > I connected two Linux boxes with a crossover cable to create a mini
> > LAN. The OS is Redhat 9.0 one both machine. 
> > 
> > Ping host1 from host2 or from host2 to host1 is OK. This shoudl
> > indicate the IP addresses etc are set up correctly.  I also enabled
> > the telnet, rsh, shh, rlogin services on both machines (I am not so
> > experienced linux user, maybe not quite right). The 
> problems are when
> > I use telnet or others except ping, e.g.
> > % telent host1 
> > 
> > I alwalys get "connection refused". 
> > 
> > Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to solve the problem?
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Yu
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> in /etc/xinetd.d/telent  change disable = yes to no
> 
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> Michael S. Dunsavage
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