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Date:      Tue, 01 Apr 1997 09:50:12 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP Desperate for help!
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970401095010.006a2504@etinc.com>

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At 01:42 PM 4/1/97 +0100, Developer wrote:
>
>
>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?

Why not post a trace of the ppp negotiations? Perhaps there is a parameter
conflict....are you getting to state IPCP_OPENED? If not, you cant pass
traffic.

Dennis



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