Well it depends on the distro and whether you are running inetd or something like it, or not. Usually inetd is used to manage all of the tcp daemons. There is a file called /etc/inetd.conf See if you have that and look for a line that says telnet. Make sure that this line is NOT commented out (if it begins with a # then delete that). If you had to change that, do a reboot. Just type ifconfig to see what your IP address is set to. It will list all network interfaces. Most likely you want eth0 so you can try ifconfig eth0 and look for an IP address. Try telnetting to the linux box from the linux box first. You can't login as root, you need another user name. There is tons of documentation on linux networking. Did you look at http://www.tldp.org/ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FTP.html Linux is actually just the kernel. The way that networking is configured and services started is distribution specific. Look at the docs for networking and services for your distro. Some stuff is generic, for example I can configure an ethernet device on the command line by doing ifconfig eth0 down (stops the interface) ifconfig eth0 up (starts the interface) ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up (start eth0 with specific IP and netmask) route add default gw 192.168.99.254 (add a default gateway) The way these things are configured for specific systems at boot time differs between redhat, slackware, debian, etc. There is lots to learn. But there are lots of docs. Everything you need to know about networking can be found on web sites. Google is your friend. -- Doug
