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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!not-for-mail From: solarix@mail.daphnis.com (Jerry Allen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: http over ppp Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 01:05:11 GMT Organization: Daphnis Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33405f07.192621@192.168.1.1> References: <33402601.4802@mr.picker.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mg142-152.ricochet.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.ppp:17125 comp.os.linux.networking:73831 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5722 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:27847 On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:00:49 GMT, Randy Skedel <skedel@mr.picker.com> wrote: >Hi guys, > >I'm sure someone here can help me. I'm running a NetBSD box with Apache >web server, mgetty and pppd. I can dial into the box and make a ppp >conection just fine. I can telnet, rlogin, ftp and just about anything >you can think of accross the ppp link. Only problem is, I can't access >html pages with a browser over the ppp link. It serves the pages up fine >through the ln0 (ethernet) interface but not through ppp0. > >If I telnet over the ppp link to port 80 and issue a GET for an html >page, that works but when I use the browser, it just hangs with "Host >contacted. Waiting for reply..." > >When I look in Apache's access_log, it shows that the page I requested >was serviced successfully. > >When I use tcpdump and monitor ppp0, I can see a few www packets but >then they stop. > >Like I say, everything else works fine accross the ppp link. > >Any ideas? Maybe the mtu/mru packet size of the ppp connection? I had trouble with Netscape using mtu smaller than 1500.. Jerry