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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:49:05 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: TCP connections over SLIP are still a problem 
Message-ID:  <199503190649.WAA24728@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:27:25 PST." <199503190627.AA05788@balboa.eng.uci.edu> 

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>> I still can't talk to another FreeBSD machine when the traffic
>> goes out my SLIP interface.  Connections to a FreeBSD machine
>> on the same local ether work fine.  Connections to non-FreeBSD
>> machines over the SLIP line work fine.  In the case of telnet,
>> I get the connection, but then nothing more.
>> 
>> Here's what tcpdump has to say.  Anyone have any ideas?
>> 
>> 20:32:10.130049 narnia.hip.berkeley.edu.1058 > estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU.teln
>et: 
>....
>
>You might have found a TCP/IP bug in FreeBSD that is only seen connected
>to another FreeBSD machine.  I have noticed differences in TCP when
>connected to SunOS 4.1 and Solaris machines, so your observation
>may be a real BSD problem and not a site-specific problem.
>
>Steven

But it is only over slip, and started happening about a week and a half
ago.  I can connect to another FreeBSD box over local ether fine.  This
would lead me to think that it is not a generic protocol bug, but something
more subtle that is specific to slip.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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