Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 7 Sep 1996 11:35:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | Derrick J Brashear <> | Subject | Re: PPP problems: possible fix |
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On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Hugues Talbot wrote:
> > Derrick Brashear wrote: > > > after realizing that PPP was livable until I upgraded past 2.0.15, I did some > > experimenting. The following diff, which undoes something in 2.0.16, works > > for me. I'd appreciate it if some of you who have been having PPP troubles > > would try it and let me know if it helps. > [small patch follows...] > > That is bizarre. This very same line was introduced in > 2.0.12 and broke *my* PPP. That's why it was taken out again > in 2.0.16. Obviously we could go a long way putting this line > back and taking it out again...
Oddly I had a ethernet cnnected machine which started suffering from the same symptoms as my PPP connected machine and that fix also fixed that machine.
> Seems to me that there is something fishy somewhere > else. Someone suggested a bug in VJ header compression. It did help > for me. People who have a ppp problem maybe can try putting a line > with `-vj' in their /etc/ppp/options file to turn the compression off, > and report the results ?
I'm willing to test it, but it wouldn't explain the bug on the machine which is ethernet-connected.
-D
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