Subject: Re: sup problems
To: None <mike.long@analog.com>
From: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/05/1995 22:27:00 
   Both pppstats and 'tcpdump tcp port 871' show that packets are flowing
   back and forth, but no bits ever hit the disk.

How long did you wait?  The first thing SUP does is download a large list
of time stamps from the server.  This is going to take a while over a PPP
link.