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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD SLIP (can telnet/cannot ping)
Date: 1 Aug 1994 18:21:28 -0700
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <31k72o$e7u@linda.teleport.com>
References: <1994Aug1.055730.4188@atlas.com> <31j51q$97e@newhub.xylogics.com>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com
In article <31j51q$97e@newhub.xylogics.com>,
James Carlson <carlson@xylogics.com> wrote:
>In article <1994Aug1.055730.4188@atlas.com>, brantk@adcmail.atlas.com (brantk) writes:
>|> slattach -s 38400 /dev/ttyd0
>
>They probably have ICMPs turned off on your line. This is a common
>thing to do to avoid wasting bandwidth on them.
>
I am feeling very, very stupid. :)
Yes, it is disabled ICMP, but not at the provider end. It's on my end.
(The slattach command that I put in the original message is NOT the one
I currently use, it's in an old version of my slip.connect script.)
Duh.
Thanks to everyone who helped.
Brant "I'm not a newbie, but sometimes I look like one" Katkansky
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