Hi David,

> Some implementations of PPP (especially ones on a certain major
> vendor's terminal servers) don't negotiate MTU correctly--if you
> let both sides default, they think they agree but they don't.

Thanks, that gives me something else I can look in to.
 
> Another thing to look at:  do you have error correction turned on?
> If not, and if your phone line is very noisy, longer packets might
> get killed more often.

I'm not sure. Another thing to look in to.
> 
> Or your flow control might be wrong, so long packets would have a higher
> likelihood of overflowing something.

I checked that. It appears correctly set up.
> 
> Good luck, I suspect you'll figure this one out.
> 
>         If I telnet over the ppp link to port 80 and issue a GET for an html
>         page, that works but when I use the browser, it just hangs with "Host
>         contacted. Waiting for reply..."
> 
> One possible reason is that browsers these days don't send unadorned
> GETs -- they add in all sorts of junk which could easily result in
> a single large packet being sent.

It appears you are correct.
Thanks again for your generous support!
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Don Ray		dray@servecom.picker.com
Picker Int'l
Service Technologies
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