From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 1 04:42:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA29252 for current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 04:42:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29232; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 04:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA27341; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:42:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:42:45 +0100 (BST) From: Developer cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Developer wrote: > > > > > We are really stuck trying to get the PPP user program (ppp) to connect to > > our Perle 833 dial in server. We can connect using Windows NT fine but on > > BSD ppp logs in and then data will travel in both directions (As I can see > > the modem lights flash at both ends for both send/recieve) but no data > > seems to actually get through as pings do not work. The packets from the > > server to the user, but seem to be lost on the way back. > > Let me take a guess: maybe it's a known problem with tcp_extensions set to > YES in /etc/sysconfig? Some broken TCP stacks don't like it, so the > solution would be to turn it off. > > Andy We've tried this - no difference. Any more ideas please?