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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: SLIP Access problems
Date: 7 Aug 1996 16:26:29 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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scapstick@wwdc.com (Sean Capstick) wrote:

> I can ping any address on the internet and the name server is working.
> If I try to FTP or Telnet any address, I get connected but then it
> stops.  I get no login prompts at all.  Eventually it times out.

I bet UDP is also working (e.g. DNS lookups).  This smells like you
and the remote peer do not agree about the use of Van Jacobsen TCP
header compression.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j