According to that 'ifconfig' statement, you are trying to telnet to yourself. To connect to the switch, consider entering the switch's IP address. ~Jay On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Michael Havens wrote: > > > 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]$ > > > -- .. .. Jay Jacobson .. Edgeos, Inc. - 480.961.5996 - http://www.edgeos.com .. .. Network Security Auditing and .. Vulnerability Assessment Managed Services .. --------------------------------------------------- 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