Re: (PM) Can't Telnet to PM2

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:31:59 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Craig wrote:

> We are suddenly not able to telnet to our PM2. We are aware that there is a
> limit to the number of telnet sessions, but as far as we can tell there are
> no telnet sessions connected. Is there anyway we can tell if there is a
> telnet session connected? We thought the maximum number of telnet sessions

Yes, dial in, or console in on s0 and do a show netconn and see how many
23's are running.

> was 1, is there a way of increasing this. This happened before and we fixed

No.

> it by rebooting, but we would rather find the problem and fix it. Any help
> would be appreciated.

2 things to do:
1. Put in an ifilter to prevent telnet except from your specific ip's
2. Change your telnet port to something obzkure like 31337. ;-)

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