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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP dies while data retrieval
Date: 7 Dec 1995 22:09:01 GMT
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fm@.aut.tu-harburg.de (Frank Meissner) writes:

> I have a PPP-line running from my employer to my home, which I both
> have installed. Invocation and protocol start is no problem. But
> always when I am trying to retrieve using full line capacity data the
> line breaks down after some hundreds of kilobytes.

You didn't turn on hardware flow-control (either in the modem, and/or
for the PPP program).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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