From: prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) Subject: Re: Problems with KA9Q and SLIP Date: 30 Sep 1992 04:00:16 GMT
In article <1992Sep29.220934.9115@vax.oxford.ac.uk> tony@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>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>
>>
>
This was indeed the problem - changing cslip to slip resulted in
almost perfect operation. I say 'almost' as the following problems
occur:
It seems that I cannot ping machines that are rather far away.
This is also the case where users try to ftp to my site. I have had
success from as far away as Florida and Ontario, but Texas and
Oregon fail. Any ideas why this is so? I cam successfully ftp to
sunsite.unc.edu ;)
Also, I am having trouble starting the telnet server (ie: start
telunix. After I start it, and try to telnet to my machine, the
connection is immediately closed. Is there anything I need to do
in addition to starting telunix? The FTP server works dandy (though
pretty slow w/o cslip - I get about 1.5-1.7Kb/sec).
Thanks for all the help,
Peter