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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems connecting to FreeBSD machine with PPP
Date: 4 Mar 1997 16:09:58 -0000
Organization: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>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.

Thanks Joerg, yourself and another kindly individual both recommended
the right thing here, as turning off TCP extensions did the trick. I
never would have thought of this...

-- 
Neil Clark
Transparent Telepresence Group
http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/nbc