From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 7 18:22:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23983 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pineknot.com (root@[207.199.74.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA23977 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from security (ppp03.pineknot.com [207.199.74.102]) by pineknot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA21010; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970907182252.006d5ae8@pineknot.com> X-Sender: drh@pineknot.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 18:22:52 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: "Dennis R. Hilton" Subject: Re: ppp problem - freeze up Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970908100105.35493@lemis.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19970907145450.006c37c4@pineknot.com> <3.0.3.32.19970907145450.006c37c4@pineknot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmmm... This is quite embarrassing. I've spent the last three days studying FreeBSD docs and trying to make FreeBSD software work. No, I didn't buy it; it was given to a friend. I guess you're all welcome to a good laugh over this one. I would if I was in your place ;) At 10:01 AM 9/8/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Dennis R. Hilton wrote: >> OS: 3.0 BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 Kernel #0: >> Hardware: Pentium Pro 200 / DigiBoard / Cisco 2500 series / 8 33.6k externals. >> >> Problem: >> >> I can dial in with Win95 and get a solid tcp connection. Light transfers >> like WWW browsing appears to work fine but heavy transfers cause a hang >> which may correct in a minute or so, or may not. > >Well, an obvious solution might be to install FreeBSD, which is what >this mailing list is all about. BSD/OS is a different operating >system. Some people here, including myself, use BSD/OS as well, but I >haven't seen this problem. Since you paid money for this system, you >should be able to get support from bsdi.com. > >Greg -- Dennis R. Hilton - PGP KeyID 6441A341 (on the server)