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Subject: Re: ppp changes - problem with connections to FreeBSD machine :-( 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I haven't had much time to track the exact changes to ppp in userland
> and in the kernel lately, but all I know, is that something is messy on
> my machine since I did a made world after a month.
> 
> The problem is that all connections work quite allright, except ftp'ing
> (always stops after appr. 10K or 20K), and telnet connections to FreeBSD
> machines (both 2.2-stable and a snapshot from 2 weeks ago). The
> connection will just stall for about 40 seconds or a minute, and then
> give some response, then stalll whatever.
> 
> This happens when I connect to our dialinserver on the university, and
> also when I dialin and rlogin to another machine (FreeBSD) to use a
> ppp-tunnel.
> 
> Can this relate to some IP fragmentation problem or some MTU problem?

If you supped between Oct 6 and Oct 12, you'll need to sup again.  I 
spammed ppp on the 6th - sorry.

> Greetings,
> 
> Mark
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