On a whim I decided that I wanted to play with this switches ipaddress. So I started telnet and the stupid program won't let me in now! What am I doing wrong? bmike1@0[bmike1]$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:C7:CA:62:4B inet addr:10.10.10.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:7333 (7.1 KiB) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800 Memory:df100000-df100038 bmike1@0[bmike1]$ sudo telnet telnet> open 10.10.10.2 Trying 10.10.10.2... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused telnet> q bmike1@0[bmike1]$ ping 10.10.10.2 PING 10.10.10.2 (10.10.10.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.10.10.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.2 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.10.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.1 ms --- 10.10.10.2 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.2 ms bmike1@0[bmike1]$ traceroute 10.10.10.2 traceroute to 10.10.10.2 (10.10.10.2), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 10.10.10.2 (10.10.10.2) 0.238 ms 0.191 ms 0.131 ms bmike1@0[bmike1]$ -- <:-)Mike(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss