Greetings I have a Slackware 3.2 Linux system which connects via ppp to our ISP who is running RedHat Linux 5.0 who is connected via ppp to the Telstra internet backbone. Most of the time the connection is ok, but occasionally pinging returns varying results like this: 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=79 ttl=248 time=8590.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=80 ttl=248 time=7620.9 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=81 ttl=248 time=6660.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=82 ttl=248 time=5690.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=83 ttl=248 time=4720.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=84 ttl=248 time=3750.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=85 ttl=248 time=2790.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=86 ttl=248 time=1820.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=87 ttl=248 time=850.3 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=88 ttl=248 time=8770.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=89 ttl=248 time=7800.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=90 ttl=248 time=6830.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=91 ttl=248 time=5870.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=92 ttl=248 time=4900.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=93 ttl=248 time=3930.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=94 ttl=248 time=2960.0 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=95 ttl=248 time=2001.4 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=96 ttl=248 time=1030.6 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=97 ttl=248 time=369.9 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=98 ttl=248 time=8621.2 ms 64 bytes from 139.130.4.5: icmp_seq=99 ttl=248 time=7680.3 ms And so on, cycling from about 8000ms to 1000ms, then usually a couple of pings at the normal response time which is about 300-350ms, then back to 8000, and the cycle continues. While this is going on response from the internet (FTP, HTTP etc.) is dismally slow. Is there some ppp-related factor that might be causing this? MTU between me and the ISP is 296, and as far as I can determine between the ISP and Telstra is also 296. tia Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
