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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp weirdness
Date: 17 Nov 1995 01:27:15 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <48godj$hs8@helena.MT.net>
References: <489gnq$bdi@portal.gmu.edu>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <489gnq$bdi@portal.gmu.edu>,
Brian T Neel (CS) <bneel@site.gmu.edu> wrote:
>
>   I've been having problems with PPP off and on for the past few months.
>Basically I just purchased a new USR 28.8 modem and need to know the
>proper settings to connect to my PPP server.  I have disabled XON/XOFF and
>enabled RTS/CTS, but when I connect to my server I am only able to
>connect via telnet/ping/ftp to the actual server with these settings...all
>other connections time out.
...

>I know this has nothing to do with DNS or routing, anyone wanna  >send
>me their USR settings??

Well, you're wrong in that it's a routing problem.  If you can
successfully contact the server with telnet, you don't have any HW
problems.  Find a good book on routing or read the FreeBSD handbook in
that area.
  


Nate


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