Thanks for all your help!

I now know that my ethernet card is "ae" and that telnetd is not always 
running but is called by inetd, and that if i
# telnet localhost
or
# telnet 127.0.0.1
I can login.

However, even after creating a ifconfg.ae file in the /etc/ directory 
which looks exactly like this:

inet 1.2.3.0 netmask 0xffffff00

and rebooting a few times, I still can't telnet to my machine from my mac 
hooked to the unix box in this fashion:

Mac              UNIX
|                  |
|                  |
-------------------------
| 10-BaseT 7 Port Hub   |
-------------------------

I have the open transport "TCP/IP" control panel set up like this:

Connect Via:         Alternate Ethernet
Configure:           manually
Ip Address:          1.2.3.1     (IP I want that mac to have)
Subnet Mask:                     (Should I put something here??? Will OT 
make one for me?)
Router Address:      1.2.3.0     (Ip address I want/have assigned to unix 
machine)
Name Server Address: 24.128.60.7 (nameserver for mediaone)


Also doing this does not work:

# telnet 1.2.3.0

this is what it says

"no route to host"

Is this a problem with not having anything in either of these files:

/etc/myname
/etc/mygate


???

Why is this not working? It is probably something simple... I looked 
through a book called Managing Internet Information Services but it only 
went into how to set up daemons and servers not basic networking like I 
am doing.


Thanks!

-Andrew





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