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From: tholo@gandalf.bbb.no (Thorsten Lockert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SLIP problem...
Date: 10 Jun 1994 18:37:59 +0200
Organization: SigmaSoft, Th. Lockert
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Message-ID: <2ta4t7$7cb@gandalf.bbb.no>
References: <1994Jun8.163914.6175@palantir.p.tvt.se> <2t91q6$fc7@nic.scruz.net>

In <2t91q6$fc7@nic.scruz.net> hedges@fractal.com (Tom Hedges) writes:
>In article <1994Jun8.163914.6175@palantir.p.tvt.se>
>paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries) writes:
>
>> When the slipconnection is established I can ping in both directions,
>> but not use telnet or ftp.
>
>I've had a very similar problem trying to connect a NetBSD 0.9 PC
>running SLIP with a Mac running InterSLIP - you can ping, but nothing
>else works. The same Mac connects to a Livingston router SLIP port
>without any problems. Any clues to this one?????

Make sure the compressed SLIP option is the same in both ends of the
SLIP link, or only non-TCP datagrams will get through past the first
datagram on each connection.

Thorsten
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