I am having a heck of a time getting a pppd firewall up. We have 1.3.2 =
on a i386 and a modem hanging off the back up to our provider. if I am =
on the console of the box pinging, dns lookup etc. work great. The box =
also has a lan card (ep0) on the local lan. Any attempt to telnet or =
pop3 in from the lan pauses for minutes then works but it is bursty. =
Even pings to the firewall from the lan pause for a long time before =
starting. Killing pppd and shutting down the ppp0 interface removes this =
problem.

The kernel was compiled with no GATEWAY option, routed was started with =
-q. pppd is autostarted in /etc/ppp/peers/PROVIDERNAME. This file =
contains the defaultroute option and mygate is empty. The box is a =
compaq deskpro pentium 200 with 64MB of RAM.

I am sure it is something simple. Can anyone shed any light on this. It =
has been about 2 years since I setup this type of link under 1.2.1 and =
it worked fine but I must have missed a step.

Scott Burns
Scott.Burns@Netcontech.Com
(519) 673-3424