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Re: MacPPP debugging suggestions?

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From: Guy Hillyer
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:36
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In article <C1AIxs.ACG@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umandru1@ccu.umanitoba.ca (John N. Andrusiak) writes:
>
>Hi. I've been trying to get MacPPP working at my University. I'm using
>MacPPP 1.0 (not beta) and I believe I'm connecting to a Netblazer.
> 
>Things seem to be going well. I can reach the netblazer and the protocol
>negotiations seem to be sucessful. There are no error messages and my
>applications (NCSA Telnet and Fetch) do start. The problem is they
>will not connect to any other machines.
> 
>I think the problem is probably with my configuration of MacTCP. My question
>is, is there a way to verify that the PPP connection is working, and it's
>actually MacTCP that is causing the problem? I'm thinking of some sign
>or maybe a program I can run that will show at least the PPP part of the
>connection is working. 
> 
>Thanks.
> 
>John Andrusiak - umandru1@umanitoba.ca
>


A Macintosh implementation of "ping" is available at ftp.apple.com in
/dts/mac/netcomm/mactcp-1-1-examples.hqx.  That might help a bit.
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!odi!guy
From: guy@odi.com (Guy Hillyer)
Subject: Re: MacPPP debugging suggestions?
Message-ID: <1993Jan23.173646.2892@odi.com>
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Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:36:46 GMT
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