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To: patrick@cre8tivegroup.com
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Subject: Re: Strange PPP error? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:16:21 GMT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 06:57:52 -0800
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>I am away from my office on a trip to California.  I am dialing into 
>a local ISP here using dialup PPP.  No problem there.  

   A guess: Your California ISP is using Annex or some other broken terminal
server that doesn't handle TCP options correctly and you didn't set
tcp_extensions=NO in /etc/rc.conf.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project