Re: kernel: SLIP, latter pl14alpha's and pl15

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From: hamer kenneth
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 15:51

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ins122a@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike Battersby) writes:
<soul-rending description of SL/IP woes.

>So, I ask:

>Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Do any people have SLIP
>working flawlessly under pl15?

Yeah, works fine for me.  Your problems remind me of MTU problems I was
having a while ago (MTU > 512 resulted in mysterious freezes) but with my
new modem (PPI PM14400FXMT) it all went away, and now I can set MTU to
1500 like the SL/IP server on the other end wants...

There was a discussion on the uiuc linux newsgroup about this regarding
prblems with the uiuc servers, I think the reason for the hangs was that
hardware flow control was not properly set up on the local modem...  But I
was using the pl15 code yesterday to telnet and read news simultaneously
with FTP'ing the new libc, gcc2.5.8, libg++, and a few other things, so I
think I gave it a good workout :)

There was an article in .help or .misc yesterday that pointed out that
the way the kernel handles MTU changed recently, mabye that is the cause
of your difficulties. 

-Ken

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Kenneth L. Hamer
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Subject: Re: kernel: SLIP, latter pl14alpha's and pl15
Date: 6 Feb 1994 15:51:36 GMT
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