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From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: X weirdness -- can someone clue me in?
Date: 4 Oct 1996 00:48:40 GMT
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Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
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My X has been running just fine for quite some time now, until yesterday,
when it suddenly refused to startup (socket connection failures).  I
haven't changed anything that I'm aware of (perhaps I did, inadvertently
somehow).

Anyway, what's really strange is that it finally started working again,
after I started up ppp from the shell.  I know it sounds crazy, but I
thought, "Well, if it's a tcp problem, maybe firing up ppp will smooth
things out", and it did!

Can somebody tell me what the heck is going on, or point me to a source
for some info?  I'm very weak on networking, TCP/IP, etc.

Thanks!
-- 
Conrad Sabatier                  | 
conrads@neosoft.com              |  Eschew obfuscation.
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