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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:41:52 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (bsd)
Subject:   progress report on connection problems
Message-ID:  <9701281741.AA32652@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199701281002.UAA00874@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
References:  <199701281002.UAA00874@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>

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<<On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:02:02 +1000 (EST), Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> said:

> I am connected to the carrier (ISP) through my Stallion EasyServer 8 Port.
> This is an Annex the same as the XYLogics Annex. Running V9.xx software erpcd.

Annex terminal servers are not capable of correctly processing TCP
packets with options that they don't understand.  You should complain
to them to fix their software.  The sites which you mentioned as
having difficulty in connecting with you are sending such packets.

-GAWollman

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