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From: Fabio Capozzi <fabio@rsg.dcp.telecom.it>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: http over ppp
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 11:22:32 +0100
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Randy Skedel wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm sure someone here can help me. I'm running a NetBSD box with Apache
> web server, mgetty and pppd.  I can dial into the box and make a ppp
> conection just fine.  I can telnet, rlogin, ftp and just about anything
> you can think of accross the ppp link. Only problem is, I can't access
> html pages with a browser over the ppp link. It serves the pages up fine
> through the ln0 (ethernet) interface but not through ppp0.

Using ping with the extension -s -p check that pinging from Unix to
Client
work fine for any packet lenght and for various data pattern. Report
results!!
Eg. ping -s 1000 send a 1000 byte packet 
Eg. ping -s 1000 -p 14 send a 1000 byte packet filled of 0x14 as data
pattern.

Best Regard!