SUMMARY: limits to telnet logins

From: Richard Rogers <R.M.Rogers_at_staffs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 15:07:32 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:42:52 +0000 (GMT) Richard Rogers
<R.M.Rogers_at_staffs.ac.uk> wrote:

> what determines the limit to the number of simultaneous telnet logins?
>
> We have 512 ptys in /dev; the nptys in sysconfigtab is 255, maxusers
> is 256, yet we can only get 64 simultaneous telnet logins. Can anyone
> tell us why?
>
> Digital UNIX v4.0B on Alpha AXP 4710.

Looks like for all we had lots of pty* devices, we didn't have the
right ones! Thanks to Alex Nord for the cure; he suggested doing

 MAKEDEV PTY_1

(Naturally I had already done 2 and 3, couldn't believe I hadn't
already done 1!).

Thanks to all the other respondents (apologies to those who suggested
it was a licence limit problem: I should perhaps have pointed out
that we have an unlimited user licence).

Richard

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Received on Wed Dec 17 1997 - 16:10:35 NZDT

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