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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems connecting to FreeBSD machine with PPP Date: 2 Mar 1997 10:42:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5fblhr$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5f47p6$1va@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36414 nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) wrote: > However, when I attempt to do the same using my laptop, which runs > FreeBSD, it fails. Telnetting gets to the point just before where > one should enter one's password, then hangs. HTTP doesn't work at > all; neither does POP. Nothing seems able to get through, although > ping works. I can log onto another (non-FreeBSD) machine, and then > onto my server, but this is far from ideal. Every system > I have tried has succeeded in this, except for FreeBSD. Hmm. There are few situations where this could happen. You could try turning off TCP extensions, or turning off VJ header compression, to see if it helps. I'd strongly suggest you investigating the problem using tcpdump. Ah, one other thing that comes to mind: is your client perhaps asking in vaine for some DNS lookups? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)