rlogin problem on DEC3100 running ultrix 4.1

[Jeffrey Kays]

In article <amit.677440916 at osceola.cs.ucf.edu>, amit at osceola.cs.ucf.edu (Amit Jain) writes:
 > 
 > We have a DECstation 3100 running ULTRIX 4.1  in a network of mostly 
 > SPARCstations and Sun-3 workstations. The problem is when I rlogin
 > from the DECstation to one of the sun-4's it seems to hang. I did
 > an etherfind and it shows the two machines exchanging packets
 > and in fact on the sun-4 I can see my self logged in and the
 > packets show the usual login messages being sent but nothing ever
 > appears on the DECstation window. Also this problem is not
 > consistent, i.e. does not happen all the time, but about 75% of the
 > time. If anybody has any clue, I will appreciate hearing about it.
 > 
 > Amit 


There is a known Ultrix 4.x bug that causes DECstations to hang when
rlogin'ing to Suns. You should call DEC support and get a tape with the 
fixed rlogin.

  jeff

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