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James Salsman wrote:
> 
> Karl,
> 
> Thanks for your reply to my post:
> 
> >> Sadly, at this time I can not reccommend my own ISP,
> >> Best Communication Corporation, of Mountain View, because
> >> while they appear to carry my Linux PPP TCP packets,
> >> they do not yet carry my Linux PPP UDP or ICMP packets.
> >> Perhaps this message will prompt them to rectify the situation.
> >
> > I'd like to help solve your problem.. However, I have no idea
> > what you mean by this.. Could you elaborate a bit?
> 
> Yes; under Volkerding Slackware'96 (k.v. 2.0; "based on non-
> dynamic version [of ppp.c] from ppp-2.1.2d), telnet is
> excruciatingly slow.  traceroute doesn't have any output
> other than the header.  nslookup doesn't work.  the same

traceroute works fine:
> traceroute bovik.org
traceroute to bovik.org (205.149.161.94), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  pm05.ba.best.net (206.184.143.145)  144.912 ms  134.635 ms  137.07
ms
 2  core1-fddi10-0.mv.best.net (206.184.143.129)  151.893 ms  145.182
ms  137.628 ms
 3  pm09.mv.best.net (206.86.127.19)  142.485 ms  135.335 ms  137.169 ms
 4  bovik.vip.best.com (205.149.161.94)  291.939 ms  275.222 ms  277.08
ms

> authentication at the same speed to the same phone number
> under Win3.11 Trumpet Winsock works well.

If Win/3.11 is working much faster than Linux for the same conditions,
you should try irqtune (See http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune).

Regards,
Craig