possibly an mtu thing? ping sends pretty small packets. Once they get over a certain size they may be getting "stuck"
ping progressivley bigger packets (man ping) and see if/when they stop coming back. set mtu accordingly. then again i could be talking out a hole in my keyboard... On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:33:47 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Must stop replying to my own messages... > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:29, you wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:16, you wrote: > > Yes. I have done this- you set up an "Incoming Connection" in the > > control panel. Most instructions say to select COM1: (or whatever) from > > the list, however I did not get COM1 (or any port) in my list. I had to > > first go to the "Modems" control panel and add a modem that was a direct > > serial connection. This then appeared in the list. > > Right. COM ports appear if you are an administrator. Apparently I am not, > but I do have administrative privileges. > > > I'm done for now- I have seen the PPP connection working between two > > Linux boxen, and I think I have the XP box ready. > > It, er, mostly works. I can (now) bring up a PPP link to the XP box. I > can ping anything on the LAN and anything on the internet. *However* all I > seem to be able to do is ping. If I try to ssh to somewhere or use http to > browse a website the PPP link stops. For example, ssh gets nowhere, so I > CTRL-C out and then I can't ping anything either. I then have to kill the > pppd process on Linux and forcibly disconnect the incoming connection in XP > before I can re-establish the connection. > > Any clues about why ping is successful but nothing else seems to work? > > Thanks in advance, > > Andy -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
