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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!ihug.co.nz!feeder.chicago.cic.net!newsrelay.netins.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.244.176.52!news.iij.ad.jp!np1.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!aist-nara!odins-suita!odins-toyonaka!ushida 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 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5ffp9h$77@es2.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> References: <5f47p6$1va@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <5fblhr$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rhea.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.20] 1996-12/08(Sun) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36490 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 !! -- Jun Ushida ushida@kronos.mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp