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From: fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: more about 386BSD SLIP
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Date: 8 Sep 92 20:10:31 GMT
References: <Sep.7.14.41.53.1992.602@athos.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep7.193547.6231@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <schneck.715956942@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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>In article,  schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck) writes:
>dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>
>In article <Sep.7.14.41.53.1992.602@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>>>Aside from the well-known silo overflow problem, I think there's
>>>another problem in the serial driver.  I just had output hang in SLIP.
>
>There may be a buglet in obcopy (or something like that) in the kernel
>code, which will kill TCP ACK packets (among others).  There was a fix
>in the PPP code for 386BSD which also repairs SLIP.
>
>\Bernhard.
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>Bernhard Schneck              | Email: Bernhard.Schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE
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>8000 Muenchen 83, Germany     | Germany            | from.   Illusions, R. Bach

Indeed there is!  I've been trying to get PPP up and running.  I finally got
the boxes talking and I'm seeing the same behaviour.  Where can I find
this fix?  It wasn't in the PPP code I picked up from cayman.com. 
(I don't think ...)

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