When I telnet into my mac, I seem to only be able to open a few ports 
before things get strange.  I get the message:

Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
telnetd: All network ports in use.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I've only got one external connection going on there, and a couple of 
xterms displaying locally on my mac's X server.

I noticed in /dev/ that I only had four ptyp's.  My sparc20 has 16 of 
them in /dev/ptyp, 16 in /dev/ptyq, 16 in /dev/ptyr, for a total of 48 
pseudoterminals.

Any idea how to create more of them?  Or is this the answer.  I don't 
know how to use MAKEDEV, but I fear I'll have to learn.

I noticed that when I try to rlogin into the machine I get the message:

abam 1% rlogin localhost
rlogind: Out of ptys.
rlogin: connection closed.

The same happens if I log in remotely.  Okay, so anyone know what to do?  
Hope this is not a limitation of the hardware or kernel. . . .

the goods:
^^^^^^^^^^
It's a mac IIci, 8MB, MacCon 32 ethernet, 14.4kbps piece o' crap(tm) modem, 
onboard video (monochrome, won't run X server in color, hangs), 500, 700 
and 80 MB hardrives.

load:
^^^^
11:30AM  up 11:33, 2 users, load averages: 0.16, 0.22, 0.24

 procs   memory     page                    disks         faults      cpu
 r b w   avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ?0 ?1 ?2 ?3   in   sy  cs us sy id
 0 0 0 14528   324    5   1   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  202   54  13  2  3 95
 2 0 0 15600   324   11   4   4   1   0   1  0  0  0  0  212   92  20  2  6 92

Okay, so it's always paging out!  Will try to fix with another 16MB of 
RAM.  anyone got any 4MB 30 pin SIMMs 4sale?

Kernel:
^^^^^^
NetBSD 1.1A (GENERIC) #50: Thu Dec 28 17:07:09 PST 1995


More, I cannot tell you.

I can run 10 HTTP daemons, sendmail, inetd, cu, slattach, X, xterms, 
xclock. . . . ftp. . . . quite successfully with no problems or 
slowdowns, no "running out of ports", "no more processes" etc.  So I 
don't think it's really out of resources.

Thanks in advance,

Adam Delu

best to reply to:  abam@ohwig01.houston.omnes.net