Subject: Re: Is the 1.3 PPP broken?
To: Nate Bohlmann <njb@elfwerks.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/14/1998 23:47:13
On Jan 14, Nate Bohlmann wrote
> Hi folks,
>   I'm not sure if I'm just being stupid here or there's something
> seriously wrong.  I have PPP connecting to my service provider and
> I can ping anyone I want, I just can't do anything other than ICMP 
> packets apparently.  FTP'ing to the netbsd.org site gives me one line
> of the welcome message and hangs.  I have to background FTP and kill
> it to get a prompt back.  Telnet does the same sort of thing.  I can
> log in but never get a prompt.  I checked the network statistics and
> all packets are good through all protocol levels so I'm stumped.
> Can anyone shed some light on this problem?  I am running the GENERIC
> kernel on a Cyrix 80 MHz 486 if that helps any..

Hum, I use ppp with 1.3 at both end, without problems. But I use
mru/mtu of 296, as I always read email while transfering big files :)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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