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- From: kanep@mcs.com (Kane Peterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: What's TCP *supposed* to do?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 05:28:28 GMT
- Organization: MCSNet Internet Services
- Message-ID: <2068.6577T1399T2703@mcs.com>
- References: <4cg68q$kg6@homer.alpha.net>
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-
- >I am desperately trying to get my tcp in gear for the new year. I am using
- >the 4.0 demo and the PPP demo and amiconnect for the dialing part.
-
- >I dicked around with assigns all night and now I get no error messeges when
- >I start AmiTCP but nothing else seems to happen either. The title screen
- >opens then I click ok and it closes. amiconnect dials the phone ok and
- >connects and logs on and I get a PPP connection but amiconnect and amiTCP
- >don't seem to be connected together at all.
-
- >I'm afraid I'm not quit sure what result I'm suppose to be getting.
- >Shouldn't AmiTCP open a window or something? What is suppose to happen?
-
- Well. usually nothing will happen :) Really, once you are connected you need
- to run something to see if your connection is working. My test is to open a
- shell and 'ping' a site. For example, dialup to your provider, once you have
- started AmiTCP, in a shell type 'ping mp.cs.niu.edu' [you can replace
- "mp.cs.niu.edu" with what whatever host you want or use it if you wish]. If
- you get something like:
-
- ---
-
- 9.AmigaDrive:> ping mp.cs.niu.edu <--- This is what I typed in
-
- PING mp.cs.niu.edu (131.156.1.2): 56 data bytes
- 64 bytes from 131.156.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=191 ms
- 64 bytes from 131.156.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=185 ms
- 64 bytes from 131.156.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=183 ms
- 64 bytes from 131.156.1.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=178 ms
-
- --- mp.cs.niu.edu ping statistics ---
- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
- round-trip min/avg/max = 178/184/191 ms
-
- ---
-
- then you are connected. By the way, press Control-C to stop the ping command.
- If you don't see anything going on, then something isn't set up right. If
- it does work, then you should be able to run any of your TCP clients that you
- wish that this point.
-
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