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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijppp problems Date: 27 May 1996 18:21:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ocrqr$bko@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4o8tjn$8p6@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Jim Perry <visioon@primenet.com> wrote: > Hi.. I'm having major problems connecting to my isp with iijppp.. > Basically, i log in, start ppp, and almost nothing works. > I can do DNS and ping, but anytime I try to telnet it'll resolve he name, > connect, but then not receive anything. Is it possible that your ISP has problems with the TCP extensions? Turn them off in sysconfig. (Your other examples are all UDP or ICMP, so it looks like you cannot get TCP connections to work.) If this is the reason, complain at your ISP about his broken TCP stack. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)