[BusyBox] working on busybox telnetd

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On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:20:47 -0600 you wrote:

> i've noticed one problem: when the connection first starts up, it echos some of
> the initial telnet negotiations along with the getty login prompt, so the
> first login always fails.  after that, it works great.  this problem also
> only seems to show up when i run the daemon on port 23, which has me stumped...

That'll be because telnet only attempts the negotiation for connections
to port 23.  

AIUI, telnetd only has to respond to a bare minimum subset of the
negotiations in order to be compliant.  I think I've got a usenet post
about this archived somewhere if you need it.