In article <199801141822.MAA18728@askelon.elfwerks.com>,
	Nate Bohlmann <njb@elfwerks.com> writes:
> I can ping anyone I want, I just can't do anything other than ICMP 
> packets apparently.  FTP'ing to the netbsd.org site gives me one line
> of the welcome message and hangs.

That sounds like your ISP PPP server fails to reject a data compression
protocoll it doesn't support. Try calling "pppd" with "nobsdcomp nodeflate".

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/