In article <Sep.25.21.52.33.1992.4856@athos.rutgers.edu>, hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
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> prv2d@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Peter Villadsen) writes:
> 
>>   We recently have installed a number of high-speed dialin
>>modems that run off a cisco server that supports SLIP. I
>>am attempting to use ka9q to establish a SLIP connect thru
>>my UNIX box at home. Here are the details:
>>   My setup is as follows:   386/25 8 megs of RAM
>>                             65meg Linux Partition
>>                             Supra V32bis running on serial
>>                                          line #2
> 
> You have two symptoms: 
>  - connections open but then hang
>  - you can't get to certain destinations.
> 
> 1) I suspect that you have incompatible settings for compression or
> MTU.  Unless you are running the very latest Cisco software (which is
> still in beta), you probably don't have support for compressed Slip.
> Please check the "attach" command.  It should say
> 
>   attach asy 0 /dev/... slip sl0 2048 1500 <speed>
> 

I found an mss of greater than 1000 caused severe problems.  You have defined 
the ip address of your name server ? eg.

domain add [129.67.1.0]

post your startup.net if you can't resolve the problems ...

Tony