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To: Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD to FreeBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Oct 1995 00:58:34 +1000."
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 08:25:59 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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>Im having a hard time trying to figure out this problem, if anyone could 
>help me it would be appreciated.
>
>I have 2 FreeBSD machines on a LAN, and one hanging of a term server via PPP.
>When I telnet to any of the 2 machines on the LAN from the PPP box, it 
>establishes connection but nothing more, ping works, but anything else 
>same thing, establishes connection and nothing more.

Your terminal server is broken.  Look for this entry in /etc/sysconfig
and turn it off for the machine sitting behind the PPP connection.

#
# Some broken implementations can't handle the RFC 1323 and RFC 1644
# TCP options.  If TCP connections randomly hang, try disabling this,
# and bug the vendor of the losing equipment.
# 
tcp_extensions=NO

>Any help appreciated.
>
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--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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