Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 11:34:17 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung), 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: <3.0.32.19970402113410.00b716e0@etinc.com>
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At 07:19 AM 4/2/97 -0800, Francis Yeung wrote: > > >Greetings, > > Will you have the magic number problem if you >connect 2 FreeBSD machines directly via PPP ? (both >machines are in LCP active) > > Francis What "magic number" problem are you referring to? db > >> 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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