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Subject: Re: tcp_extenions=NO between to FreeBSD Hosts!?
In-Reply-To: <19970112060920.20637.qmail@mpress.com> from "brian@mpress.com" at "Jan 11, 97 10:09:20 pm"
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In reply to brian@mpress.com who wrote:
> The following two hosts
> 
> FreeBSD top.mediacity.com 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 11 01:17:49  1997     brian@research.mpress.com:/uss/src/sys-UP/compile/LAPTOP  i386  
> 
> FreeBSD garfield.panix.com 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Sat Jan 11 20:33:29 PST 1997     larry@garfield.panix.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/LAPTOP-PCD  i386
> 
> cannot talk tcp between each other unless one of us has issued the command:
> 
> sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0
> 
> so is the problem one of us, or a router in between us?

I've seen this too, but here the culprit was IIRC an annex ISDN server.

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