Re: Win95 PPP just stops

Jonny (Jonny@Myriad.net)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:00:36 -0500

Changing to Framed-MTU=1492 fixed this problem for us.
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: From: James Hunter <JAMES_HUNTER@aspentec.com>
: To: paul@egate.net
: Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
: Subject: Re: Win95 PPP just stops
: Date: Monday, October 21, 1996 5:02 PM
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: >Received: October 21, 1996 02:23pm Sent: October 21,
1996
: >02:18pm
: >From: paul@egate.net <UNIX.ASPENTECH.COM:paul@egate.net>
: >To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
: >Subject: Win95 PPP just stops
: >Return-Path: <paul@egate.net>
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:
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: >I've been noticing a problem with our customers PPP connections.
At first
: >I thought it was local to my machine which runs Win95 PPP Dial-Up

: >Networking from home. I will be in the middle of a PPP session and

: >suddenly nothing will go through. Everything stalls. I cannot ping

: >anywhere including the PM. The lights on my modem however seem to
flash a
: >bit when I try these pings into nowhere. Today a customer using
Trumpet
: >Winsock under 95 had the same problem. His FTP stalled after about
20
: >minutes without fail. The modem connection is fine and all. I'm
not sure
: >how to diagnose this.. Which logs should I check or debug should I
look
: >at? The problem is it always happens at home when I'm using my
only modem
: >so it's hard to 'check the server end'
:
: For what's worth, someone in this mail group mentioned this problem
and
: suggested changing:
:
: Framed-MTU = 1500
:
: to
:
: Framed-MTU = 753
:
: in the radius users file. I had the same problem and the change
worked.
:
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