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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:12:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      RCB <rbeer@jaguar.cris.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   freebsd connectivity over ppp weirdness
Message-ID:  <199703141812.KAA00219@jaguar.cris.com>

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I have FreeBSD on my work machine and last  night have installed it on
my home  PC  as well (converting  both from  Caldera Open Linux) (both
2.1.7-RELEASE)

>From home, I can make a PPP connection  (dynamic IP) to an IP network,
and    can   perform   all    traditional   ip  functions,   including
telnet/rlogin/ftp into machines, but  when I try  to rlogin to my work
FreeBSD  box, a connection  is  made,  but I'm  never  prompted for  a
password -- the  session 'freezes'.  I did not  have this problem when
connecting to my work FreeBSD machine from my home Linux box.

I experienced this back with 2.0.5 and earlier 2.1.X's, as well, and I
suspect  that may  be caused  by dynamic  ip addresses or  the dynamic
domain name assigned to each connection.  Perhaps the client/server is
blocking when attempting to resolve a domain name?

Does anyone know what this could be?  Thanks,

Rich
rbeer@jaguar.cris.com



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