> ifconfig shows everybody up and not dropping packets.  Most boxes talk
> to each other and swap packets at a rate of 0.1 - 0.2 ms.  The box
> having trouble has a round trip time of 9ms (more or less) due to it's
> distance from all of the other machines on the network.

9ms ?? just how many repeaters do you have on that segment

> 3) YET, if I telnet into MACHINE A from any remote box (unix or windoze)
>    from any location (1 klick away or 10) then MACHINE A chokes.  Even
>    PINE hangs until I kill the rlogin...

If you ping machine A from the outside what does it look like from another
machine on the network. Do you see the pings, do you see replies going out
and being lost ?

> Any ideas anyone?  I am a SQL DBA so this sort of puzzle is tough for

>          North Richmond Community Mental Health Center

This is the sort of bug that generates patients Im afraid. You want to look
at what is going on from another machine on the lan.

Alan

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