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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PLIP <--> Linux
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:03:43 +0100
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> However, perhaps some dinking around with a packet monitor (bpfilter +
> tcpdump on FreeBSD side, i-dont-know-what on the Linux side) will show
> if there is some particular type of traffic which pressages the hangs;
> that might at least allow you to narrow it down.

However, BPF doesn't work with the lp interfaces (the packet header
is the wrong size for what BPF is expecting).