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I can ping/traceroute to various places via my SLIP connection, but nothing else works. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017connection ping slip traceroute various wrong

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I can ping/traceroute to various places via my SLIP connection, but nothing else works. Whats wrong?

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The most likely reason is that you are using SLIP and your provider is using CSLIP, or vice versa. Traceroute uses the same packet type as ping, an ICMP packet. These aren’t compressed on a CSLIP line, and so work properly. Other IP packets will be compressed, and will fail.