telnet problem. 1

[maltais]

Hi,
I am new here and need some help; (I dont know much about telnet); here's the scenario:

telnet from my computer to server A is OK,
telnet from my computer to server B is NOT OK,
but telnet from my computer to A then telnet to B is OK!.

All machines are SCO5.05.

Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[cdlvj]

and the net mask on all those machines is 255.255.0.0?

 

[maltais]

the ifonfig -a on all machines are giving me
inet 192.168.xx.xxx netmask ffffff00

so i guess my netmask is 255.255.255.0?

 

[cdlvj]

I would think that you would want 255.255.0.0

 

[PHV]

cdlvj, with ffff0000 mask no route needed at all ...

 

[maltais]

telnetd is not running on my machine.
Could it be a problem?.

 

[stanhubble]

no....you only need that on the host (server a or server b)
the other router tha may be the problem is 192.168.5.1

Can you or your network admins get 192.168.50.1 to ping/communicate to 192.168.5.1?

It may be a problem if the packets have to travel thru the 192.168.1 network (there seem to be multiple routers .229 and .254) if something is misconfigured there you won't have direct communication between the 192.168.50 and the 192.168.5 networks.

 

[maltais]

As Stan notes, the problem is with 192.168.5.1; my system admin said we'll going to upgrade our routers.

So i will just live with that till the upgrade.

I thank everyone for their input.