From: Randall Parker 

Geo wrote:
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:44c6a7f8{at}w3.nls.net...
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>> 10  * * *
>> 11  * * *
>> 12  * * *
>> 13  * * *
>> 14  66.102.7.147 (66.102.7.147)  68.823 ms   64.835 ms   60.895 ms
>> [randall{at}localhost ~]$
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>> Why'd it succeed on the last hop?
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> You have something set in a firewall somewhere that's blocking this.
> Traceroute or tracert on windows should be returning valid times to all
> hops. Since it's happening with both windows and linux, it's most likely a
> setting in your NAT device (router).

Taking the NAT device out of the equation did not help any either for
traceroute or for the Linux Thunderbird slowness.

Your enabling ICMP did not help Linux Thunderbird speed either.

>
> Geo.
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