Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 07:19:10 -0800 From: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung) To: dennis@etinc.com, brian@awfulhak.org Cc: dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! Message-ID: <9704021519.AA16536@fyeung8.netific.com>
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Greetings, Will you have the magic number problem if you connect 2 FreeBSD machines directly via PPP ? (both machines are in LCP active) Francis > From brian@awfulhak.org Tue Apr 1 14:32 PST 1997 > To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> > Cc: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: PPP Desperate for help! > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 20:49:07 +0100 > From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> > X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > X-Fetchmail-Warning: no recipient addresses matched declared local names > > > 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> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > >
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