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To: Marc van Kempen <wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: Can't connect to FreeBSD hosts 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 95 14:13:55 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 04:27:29 -0800
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>I have noticed something awkward. I can't connect to FreeBSD machines
>on the net. I have no problems reaching other hosts (via ppp), but all
>connections to FreeBSD machines seem to succeed, only to hang after 
>the initial contact.

   Try turning off tcp extensions. Look for the tcp_extensions variable in
/etc/sysconfig and set it to "NO".

-DG