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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need HELP - slow connection after routing ppp - ethernet
Date: 25 Feb 1996 13:19:51 GMT
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nerle@pdv.de (Dirk Nerling) writes:

> I tested today with traceroute. The PPP clients were never reached,
> although ping already work.

traceroute uses a rather messy hack to find out about the routes.
Read the man page, it does also mention cases where it cannot find
about a route.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)