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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: TCP connections over SLIP are still a problem 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 1995 13:17:44 PST."
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:27:25 -0800
From: Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.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.telnet: 
....

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