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From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: SLIP problems with FreeBSD 2.1
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:55:29 GMT
Organization: Vault Information Services
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.) wrote:
>> The user connects, logs in, and is added to the route table.
>> Everything looks good from the host side. However, the user can not
>> access anything (IRC, WWW, etc.) and pings of the host fail.
>> [...] The problem is also intermittent.
>Are you using Proxy ARP?
No... I have seen this option for PPP but not SLIP or at least using
sliplogin. I ended up creating a new account for the user with the
problem. He tried his first account and it failed in the usual way.
He then tried his second account and it worked. Once. Then it too
failed when he tried a few hours later. No one else seems to be
having the level of failure this user is. I hope that switching this
user to PPP (using the script you gave me) will solve the problem. If
it doesn't then that would mean what? Client side problems? Phone
company problems? General routing problems? I am very good at
tracking down general system failures that can be reproduced on
demand. These intermittent problems that only occur for one user
though...
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