summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet b/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d77d28b09093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+NCSA telnet doesn't work with path MTU discovery enabled. This is due to a
+bug in NCSA that also stops it working with other modern networking code
+such as Solaris.
+
+The following information is courtesy of
+Marek <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
+
+There is a fixed version somewhere on ftp.upe.ac.za (sorry, I don't
+remember the exact pathname, and this site is very slow from here).
+It may or may not be faster for you to get it from
+ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/msdos/telnet/ncsa_upe/tel23074.zip
+(source is in v230704s.zip). I have tested it with 1.3.79 (with
+path mtu discovery enabled - ncsa 2.3.08 didn't work) and it seems
+to work. I don't know if anyone is working on this code - this
+version is over a year old. Too bad - it's faster and often more
+stable than these windoze telnets, and runs on almost anything...