> 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...
Quick theory, I have seen the very same odd effect on a different system,
took me a Sunday afternoon of playing to hunt down :). The problem was
that the SMC 16port hub I was using would work happily with any packet
upto 100bytes, 100-150byte packets got through sometimes but 150+byte
packets vanished.
This had the effect of letting telnet in but not much else, letting nfs
mount but no transfer, not letting ssh in (larger packets).
To test this idea look at the replys to ping -s 60-200 in 20byte steps.
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