> You're probably getting screwed by the non-compressibility of TCP time
> stamps.  The SLIP/PPP header compression code should really just
> remove time stamp options.

Erm. Yeah. But the packets are flowing through routers in between.
Both the ftp server and client are Ethernet'ed to their respective
local area networks.

I am going to try turning off all VJ compression on the routers as
a start, but then looking at the kernel and thinking about turning
off time stamps and rest.

Regards,
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