Re: TCP hangs over PPP on kernel 2.2.1, ok on 2.0.36

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
5 Feb 1999 15:20:07 +0100


Franklin Johnson wrote:
>
> But TCP doesn't seem to function over the PPP interface. I can ping and
> traceroute hosts all over the place without a problem but if I try to
> telnet to a host the connection hangs after "Escape character is '^]'."

That's the classic "VanJ compression doesn't work for you" problem.

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