From: tony@vax.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Re: Problems with KA9Q and SLIP Date: 29 Sep 1992 21:09:34 GMT
In article <Sep.25.21.52.33.1992.4856@athos.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
> prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) writes:
>
>> We recently have installed a number of high-speed dialin
>>modems that run off a cisco server that supports SLIP. I
>>am attempting to use ka9q to establish a SLIP connect thru
>>my UNIX box at home. Here are the details:
>> My setup is as follows: 386/25 8 megs of RAM
>> 65meg Linux Partition
>> Supra V32bis running on serial
>> line #2
>
> You have two symptoms:
> - connections open but then hang
> - you can't get to certain destinations.
>
> 1) I suspect that you have incompatible settings for compression or
> MTU. Unless you are running the very latest Cisco software (which is
> still in beta), you probably don't have support for compressed Slip.
> Please check the "attach" command. It should say
>
> attach asy 0 /dev/... slip sl0 2048 1500 <speed>
>
I found an mss of greater than 1000 caused severe problems. You have defined
the ip address of your name server ? eg.
domain add [129.67.1.0]
post your startup.net if you can't resolve the problems ...
Tony