From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:53:07 -0800 (PST) From: "David A. Gatwood" To: murali nagarajan Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Problem with ping/telnet In-Reply-To: <022601c1ae91$34c80820$0900a8c0@Domain.invalid> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, murali nagarajan wrote: > - PING command does not work > The erro message I get is "ping: unknown protocol icmp" Don't know. Might be a kernel compile issue or something, or it might be related to the second issue. Not sure. > - Telnet program does not work which tells me that the service is unknown. > The error message I get is "telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service" This one's easy. Telnet explicitly asks the system for the default port number for telnet service. If you don't have a valid /etc/services file (with telnet listed), it won't be able to do so, and it will fail. If you specify a port number by hand (e.g. telnet foo.com 23), it should work. Or you can just put in an /etc/services file. Later, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my weekly web comic: http://www.techmagazine.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/