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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!netcom.net.uk!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.brunel.ac.uk! strath-cs!str-ccsun!not-for-mail 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 Message-ID: <5fhhgm$ebt@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> References: <5f47p6$1va@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <5fblhr$9mf@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36853 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