[wplug] telnet

[Keir Josephson]

Have you tried clearing the arp cache on the linux box?

-Keir

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Weber, Larry A wrote:

> I have my Linux PC directly connected to a PC/104 Linux embedded system.
> The application on the PC/104 has to automatically start after the system
> boots so I modified inittab.  The application starts a watch-dog running in
> hardware.  When I need to make a change to the application I have to telnet
> in re-change inittab and kill the application.  However this does not stop
> the watch-dog, so a reset on the PC/104 occurs.  When the PC/104 system
> comes back up I have to exit telnet on the PC and try to reconnect.  This is
> where the error usually occurs.  Resetting the PC/104 does not correct the
> problem, only by restarting Liniux can I remake the connection.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Jonathan S Billings [SMTP:billings at negate.org]
> > Sent:	Monday, October 06, 2003 3:50 PM
> > To:	wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject:	Re: [wplug] telnet
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:04, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> > > If I use telnet to connect to a target system, I will get an error "No
> > route
> > > to host found" if the target system is not properly set up.  After I
> > correct
> > > the target I continue to get the same error message until I restart
> > Linux on
> > > my host system.  Is there a way to reset telnet so I don't have to keep
> > > restarting Linux?
> > > 
> > > -laweber
> > 
> > The error you are receiving, "No route to host found" looks like the
> > networking between the two systems has gone down.  If telnetd weren't
> > running, you'd get an error like:
> > 
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > 
> > Which is probably why you have to restart the system to get it to work
> > again.  I suggest that you check to see why the network is failing.  It
> > is probably not telnetd's fault.
> > -- 
> > Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
> > TSFNKP, President and Chief Lackey
> > 
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