On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mike Frisch wrote:
|On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Clifford Kite wrote:
|
|> |After pppd successfully connects to my ISP, everything
|> |works fine, but then after a non predictable amount of
|> |time (just like you) I cant initiate any type of ip
|> |connection to the internet (for web-browsing or whatever)
|> |from the windows boxes and the linux machine.
|>
|> Try turning off Van Jacobson compression with the pppd option novj.
|
|Pardon my ignorance, but if this solves the problem, what exactly is the
|problem and what needs to be fixed? Doesn't VJ compression increase the
|performance of the PPP connection?
Note first that my reply was directed to Andrew who specifically said that
his problem was IP.
Some (sometimes it seems almost all) ISPs have PPP implementations that are
broken in some way. A few cannot properly handle VJ header compression and
then IP doesn't work. If PPP works without VJ then you can complain to
the ISP about it. Well, you can complain, but it's another question as to
whether they will do anything about it even if you get past the front line
of "help" personnel.
Yes, VJ does improve the PPP link transfer, although it's of less
importance nowadays with modem compression.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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