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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shiva Lanrover and PPP dialin...
Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:13:09 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4h2r2l$4et@helena.MT.net>
References: <gnn.825462668@wrs.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <gnn.825462668@wrs.com>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@wrs.com> wrote:
>	Does anyone have any experience with getting PPP dialin working
>    with a Shiva Lanrover E?  I can't seem to get it working.  I can 
>    get a connection but when I try to ping the LanRover claims that:
>
>    Received PPP Protocol Reject for unidentified protocol (03CF)

I'll bet dollars to donuts that the Shiva is confused with the TCP extensions
that FreeBSD (correctly) uses.

In /etc/sysconfig, disable tcp_extensions (set it to NO), reboot, and
try again.  If that works, complain to Shiva and tell them to update
their server to follow the standards. :)



Nate
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