Thank you all. The message from Daniel Pittman led me to a fix for by problem, which was (seemed?) to be a MTU problem. Interestingly various values gave strange errors until I arrived at the BT-recommended value. This configuration detail had been forgotten.
Thanks again; we seem to be alive now. ==John ffitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

