Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

when we enable banner of the day. it causes the wan connection to drop. ideas?

Message was edited by: ewp1965

Originally posted by: tony.evans

You'll need to provide more information.

When you say banner of the day, what do you mean? /etc/motd or changing the herald in login.cfg? Or do you mean getting the sshd daemon to display the motd by changing the #Banner line?

And, what do you mean by WAN connection? Do you mean that if you telnet to the server while the above (whichever one you mean) is enabled you get the login prompt and get kicked off when it displays the message, or do you mean as soon as you turn it on (whatever that is) it drops the network connection?

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

we are using /etc/motd. A telnet session is created to the unix box. right after logging in, the MOTD pops up.
The WAN link is a 56k frame link. The backup link is a DSL link.
Only the WAN link drops when the MOTD starts to scroll.

If a local telnet session is enabled, same issue transpires.

does that help?

Originally posted by: tony.evans

And if you remove the entire content from /etc/motd the behaviour goes away?

What if you just put the word 'hello' (no CR/LF) into /etc/motd, does the behaviour persist?