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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.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: can't get SLIP client to work Date: 2 Mar 1997 22:44:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5fcvs5$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5f5ole$n1r@ns2.borg.com> 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:36417 skern@mail.borg.com (Scott Kern) wrote: > works is ping. I can ping the client form any machine on the net and > vis-a-versa. Both telnet and ftp connect to a host, then time out, because > they don't return to their prompt. What am I missing. Your client and server disagree on the usage of VJ header compression. Unlike PPP, SLIP cannot negotiate this. -- 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. ;-)