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From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP connection is s......l......o.......w......!
Date: 20 Jul 1996 23:20:36 GMT
Organization: Comnet Communications
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Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: : brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:
[hi-tech stuff deleted.

I have found that routed makes the unfortuneate assumption that
the other end of a pt-2-pt link is a computer. This is not always the case -
it could be a bank of modems without intelligence of its own.
I have managed to get around the problem in my case by tweaking
/etc/gateways.



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