Adding "novj" to /etc/ppp/options seems to have fixed
the problem. Thanks everyone for your help!
A few people wrote about the lack of a hostname on my
system. How can I tell it my hostname before I
know my IP address?
Note that the Ricochet wireless service assigns
IP addresses dynamically. On RedHat 5.1 I waited until
after the connection was established, did an nslookup on
the assigned IP address, and used "hostname" to assign
myself the appropriate Ricochet hostname. The result
would be something like mg-206253202-93.ricochet.net.
>From then on everything worked the way you'd expect.
I'm not sure yet how well this approach will work on
RedHat 6.0. Gnome complains if it starts before the
hostname is established, and I'm not sure what other
side effects there might be.
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kacoroski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 7:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: (updated) nslookup and ping work, but telnet, ftp, etc.
> do not.
>
> This is a difference in how redhat 6.0 sets up the ppp connection. In
> the options file set novj to disable the van jacobson compression and it
> will work. I had the same problem with my ricochet modem.
>
> ski
>
> v - CN Michael James wrote:
> >
> > With the Redhat 5.1 distribution the Ricochet wireless modem on my
> > Toshiba 730XCDT laptop worked fine.
> >
> > With Redhat 6.0, it establishes a connection, can look up hosts
> > by name, and APPEARS to open telnet and ftp sessions to them.
> > However the connections themselves just hang (though they work
> > from other machines).
> >
> > For example,
> > # telnet arbitraryhost.com
> > Trying 206.161.etc.etc
> > Connected to arbitraryhost.com
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> >
> > And then nothing will happen. You can still get the telnet client
> > to respond with the escape character. The same thing happens
> > opening a telnet session from a working machine TO the laptop in
> > question.
> >
> > However, ping works both directions, either by name or IP address!
> >
> > Has anyone seen this failure mode before?
> >
> > An interesting co-incidence is that I used a Japanese distribution
> > of Redhat from a magazine and someone I think might be in Japan
> > just wrote he is having a similar problem.
> >
> > I'm typing these logs by hand so be patient if there is a typo:
> > >From /var/log/messages: (omitting anything obviously irrelevant)
> >
> > Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) chat[294] OK
> > (rest of chat omitted because it worked)
> > Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: PPP version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
> > Aug 2 10:32:12 (none) network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
> > Aug 2 10:32:12 (none) network: Bringing up interface ppp0 succeeded
> > Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
> > Aug 2 10:32:15 (none) kernel: registered device ppp0.
> > Aug 2 10:32:16 (none) pppd[223]: Using interface ppp0
> > Aug 2 10:32:16 (none) pppd[223]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> > Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff:clean.
> > Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:excluding
> > 0x120-0x127 0x220-0x22f 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
> > Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff:clean.
> >
> > (the modprobe failures are interesting:)
> > Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
> > Aug 2 10:32:20 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) inetd: inetd startup succeeded
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) local IP address 206.253.200.97
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) local IP address 206.253.200.98
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) named[362]: starting. named 8.2 Wed Mar 31
> 10:57:12
> > EST 1999 (etc)
> > Aug 2 10:32:21 (none) named[362]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: Zone "ricochet.net" (file
> ricochet.net):
> > No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
> > (etc.)
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: listening on [206.253.200.97].53
> (ppp0)
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[362]: forwarding source address is
> > [0.0.0.0].1024
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named[382]: Ready to answer queries.
> > Aug 2 10:32:22 (none) named: named startup succeeded
> > (later)
> > Aug 2 10:32:33 (none) linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
> > Aug 2 10:32:33 (none) rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
> >
> > Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
> >
> > Michael James
> >
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