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Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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

I suspect you're way ahead of the problem.  Has the original poster
tried "set openmode active" ?  Without this, a client ppp will wait
for the server to initiate LCP.

I think it may be frugal to make this the default for both client
*and* server.  A lot of server implementations wait for the client
to start.  Any comments ?
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
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