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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:10:29 -0800
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>
>There seem's to be a problem with FreeBSD machines on ppp dialup accessing
>certain web servers running so FreeBSD on the web server.
>
>Myself and a person in the UK have noticed the same thing.
>
>The only thing i can see in common is that both of us having this problem
>are dialing into a xylogics annex terminal server.

   This is caused by a bug in the annex terminal server - it doesn't properly
handle TCP options. To work around this, set 'tcp_extensions" to "NO" in
/etc/rc.conf.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project