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From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Nevermind! (was Re: Networking misconfiguration?)
Date: 12 Oct 1996 22:00:00 GMT
Organization: What?  Me, organize?
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Message-ID: <53p4d0$1ee@uuneo.neosoft.com>
References: <53n1ie$k5c@uuneo.neosoft.com>
Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
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I finally managed to solve this problem!  Yay!

In article <53n1ie$k5c@uuneo.neosoft.com>,
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
>
>I'm still having the same problem I posted a few weeks ago.  Briefly, on a
>fresh reboot, I can't start X (socket connection failures) until I run PPP
>and connect to my ISP.  Once I've done this, I can then quit X (and PPP) and
>restart X, so long as I don't reboot.
>
>It seems there's something wrong with my TCP that running PPP and
>connecting to my ISP somehow fixes.  Must be in one of my /etc files, but
>I can't figure it out.
>
>If anyone wants me to post the files they think might be relevant, let me
>know.  I'd *really* like to get to the bottom of this, once and for all.
>
>Thanks!
>-- 
>Conrad Sabatier                  | 
>conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
>http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads  | 
>


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Conrad Sabatier                  | 
conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads  |