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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!jacs From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton ) Subject: Re: Proxy arp & PPP w/FreeBSD 1.1.5.1? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Message-ID: <CwqGvA.nJ@gnome.co.uk> References: <CwCoM1.1qx@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:52:22 GMT Lines: 25 Darryl Okahata (darrylo@sr.hp.com) wrote: : [ As a side note, I also tried using SLIP, but was unable to get it to : work. While ping works between the two systems, strangely enough, : telnet, rlogin, etc. do not. It seems that most packets received by my : home FreeBSD system contain "errors" -- "Ierrs" from "netstat -i" just : goes up and up. Outgoing packets seem to be fine (from my home system), : but incoming packets are somehow "garbled". This looks like a flow : control problem, but it's not -- both modems have hardware flow control : enabled, and crtscts is enabled at both ends. Weird. Anyway, I'd : rather have PPP than SLIP, and so I'm not going to spend any more time : on it. ] Ping uses udp and rlogin etc uses TCP. Thus, it looks like one end is set to use VJ TCP header compression and the other is not; look at the slattach options you are using. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG