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G'day,

Here's one for the networking gurus.

I have a small LAN of 2 machines.  One exclusively RH4.1 with 2.0.30
kernel, compiled for IP Masqerading.  This machine acts as my Internet
gateway and Linux Server generally.  

The other machine runs Win95/RH4.1.

The problem is that it takes AGES to connect between the local machines.
If the PPP link is up, it's quick as you like, but otherwise, it's 90 or
more secs.  Once the connection is actually made, eveything is nice and
quick.

This applies to Linux -> Linux connections and to Win95 -> Linux
connections.  It applies to telnet, ftp, X-apps, whatever.
The delay is too much for XVision, which will not connect at all unless
PPP is up.

Pinging either machine from the other gives sub 2 ms returns.

Both machines have each other in /etc/hosts and aslo in the Win95 hosts
file, but I'm not running any local name services

What confounds me is that if I dial up my ISP, it all runs nice and
quick ! I don't really want to have to dial up just to use local
connections !

Any clues as to my problem and where to look would be gratefully
recieved.

Please cc my e-mail (removing the NO_SPAM_THANX), as this newsserver is
a bit flaky and I may miss valuable info.

Thanks in anticipation,
Andrew