On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:59 +0000, James wrote: > Hello, > > I often use telnet to connect to (embedded) devices on a local network, > devices which do not support ssh. On both Debian and Gentoo systems I > just delete the default route out and set a second (sub)interface on > the ethernet port like this: [snip] > My actual question may or may not be related to the use of a sub interface. > When I telnet into the devices from a similarly setup Debian system, I get > a very fast response. When I telnet into the devices from a gentoo system, > it takes 30-50s (estimate) for the login prompt response. It's almost as > those telnet is set up to use ssh, but times out and then defaults to > real telnet?
Before I start, I know nothing about differences between telnet on debian and telne on gentoo. You may look there first to see if one does weird things, like you say. there are a couple of things I would to to see what's happening. Firstly, make sure your gentoo and debian box are either exactly the same box, or are on exactly the same switch. You never know just what your sysadmin has done (even if you think you know, you could be surprised!) Then try traceroute or something similar and see if the path to your embedded device is the same from each box. If not, there's your answer. If it is the same, then I'd probably try ethereal and capture the output to each box and compare it. That's how I found out ftp was trying ssl first with an embedded device that didn't support it, before trying normal ftp. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
