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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!n2van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!news.comnet.ca!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User PPP connection is s......l......o.......w......! Date: 20 Jul 1996 23:20:36 GMT Organization: Comnet Communications Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4srpk5$74@executor.comnet.ca> References: <01bb6e37.014cfd20$38673fcb@simonh.addease.com.au> <4sfus4$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sj25l$k6@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.206.213.106 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : : brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: [hi-tech stuff deleted. I have found that routed makes the unfortuneate assumption that the other end of a pt-2-pt link is a computer. This is not always the case - it could be a bank of modems without intelligence of its own. I have managed to get around the problem in my case by tweaking /etc/gateways. -- tom@tomqnx.com Tom Torrance 27 Dayton Cr., Nepean Ont., Canada K2H 7N8 My opinions are personal, and not those of my employer.