On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, doug wrote:
|I think I may be hitting a bug in ppp, but am not really sure. PPP
|works always works fine, except I cannot receive data (at least email
|messages and http pages) containing any sequence of characters
|repeated many times. This only happens on my laptop when running
The only resolution to such a problem that I've seen was to shut off the
modem compression. The modem apparently expanded the incoming compressed
date too fast for something else in the serial pipeline to handle.
The pppd software compress can help make up for this if the ISP can oblige.
But that's a big if. NTs don't implement freely available compression and
that's the only kind pppd does implement.
|redhat 6.0. It doesn't happen when running Windows 98 on the laptop
|or on my desktop running redhat 5.2. It happens whether I get data
|with netscape or telnet. With telnet, I can see that the
|communication between the laptop and pop server, for example, always
|locks up after receiving a few hundred repetitions of some character
|sequence (usually a single character repeated).
|
|I'm using
| RedHat Linux 6.0 Intel pretty much out of the box
| kernel 2.2.5-15
| ppp-2.3.7-2.rpm (but dmesg says: "PPP: version 2.3.3", strange)
The 2.3.3 is the verison of the kernel PPP support and differs from the
pppd versions which are upgraded more often.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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