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This article is from the AmiTCP/IP FAQ, by Mike Meyer with numerous contributions by others.

8.11: I can ping/traceroute to various places via my SLIP connection, butnothing else works. What's wrong?

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.  

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