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From: jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (John M. Sellens)
Subject: Re: strange TCP/IP connection problem with PPP in 2.1.5
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:15:30 GMT
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In article <E6yxyL.741@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>,
John M. Sellens <jmsellen@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
|I'm having a strange problem connecting between two FreeBSD 2.1.5
|machines over a PPP link and I'm looking for some help.
|
|I have an ethernet connected machine, and a second machine on a PPP
|dialin connection through an Annex terminal server. I can ping
|from either end, but when I try to make a TCP/IP connection via
|telnet, rsh or rlogin, the connection doesn't quite work. The
|symptoms seem to be that the Send-Q (from "netstat -a") seems to
|build up a little bit:
In case anyone was interested, K.C. Funge was right on the money
when he said:
I've heard that some Annex terminal servers have problems with
TCP_EXTENSIONS turned on. Turn them off in your /etc/sysconfig
and try it again.
- K.C. Furge
I don't know if Annexes actually have problems, but this solved mine.
Thanks!