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From: gallersd@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Rainer Gallersdoerfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: xlsfonts with PPP
Date: 14 Sep 1993 07:13:35 GMT
Organization: University of Aachen, W-Germany
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Hello,

I set up FreeBSD and everything works fine except PPP to a SUN running
dp-2.3 under SunOS 4.1.3.
I could set up the PPP link and use telnet, ping rlogin ... very nice !
But X11 does not work correctly. I figured out that programs without
fonts (like xeyes) do work, but programs with fonts don't.
Obviously 'xlsfonts' hangs !
I had similar problems one year ago with a HP700 connecting to a SUN
through a NOVELL gateway; wonderful heterogeneous world :)
On the HP a call to 'subnetconfig' gets it to work by setting the MTU
for distinct networks to 512.
I tried to lower MTU and MRU on FreeBSD by setting these values to 296
before building a new kernel and called pppd with mru 296 (but did not
recompile pppd !).
Unfortunatly the problem does not disappear - what can I do ?
May be it's worth to note that NFS also does not work.

Rainer

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