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From: ushida@kronos.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp (Jun Ushida)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems connecting to FreeBSD machine with PPP
Date: 4 Mar 1997 00:10:25 GMT
Organization: Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University
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In article <5fblhr$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de>
j@uriah.heep.sax.de writes:

|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.

Thank you for your suggestions.

I added to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file,

disable vjcomp
deny vjcomp

telnet, ftp and http works !!
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Jun Ushida
ushida@kronos.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp