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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
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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