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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!due.uninett.no!amanda.bbb.no!news.sigmasoft.com!not-for-mail From: tholo@gandalf.bbb.no (Thorsten Lockert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: My SLIP is showing! Works only at low level? Date: 31 Jul 1994 00:32:01 +0200 Organization: SigmaSoft, Th. Lockert Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31ekd1$mt9@gandalf.bbb.no> References: <3192kr$ijr@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.bbb.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <3192kr$ijr@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> pypes@pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) writes: >The system can use the nameserver, ping and respond to pings, and >can respond to finger requests. Higher level functions like telnet >and ftp say they are connected, but then fail after a minute or two, >without ever showing the login or username prompts: > >The telnet attempt looks like this: > >zone# telnet pipedream >Trying 132.183.145.65... >Connected to pipedream.mgh.harvard.edu. >Escape character is '^]'. ><long delay> >Connection closed by foreign host. >zone# Make sure the settings for compressed SLIP is the same in both ends. If not, only the first TCP datagram for each connection will be transmitted correctly. Thorsten -- Thorsten Lockert | postmaster@bbb.no | Postbox 435 | hostmaster@bbb.no | Universe, n.: N-5001 Bergen | tholo@bbb.no | The problem. Norway | tholo@sigmasoft.com |