Alas, more problems still:
I've got my box setup to use dhcp, and that works fine. FTP transfers are
fast both ways, but when I telnet/log into/out of the box, its slow. 
All I have is dhclient=YES. no ip filtering/NAT. 

Any ideas?

Erik Huizing			4th year Computer Science
huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca	Office: MS 142 Ph: 220-5768
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing