Thanks to 
varshney@pacbell.net
prh@ece.iit.edu (Paul R. Hybert)
for their quick and acurate replies.. 
eric
-----------------------------Original Post--------------------------------------
>Dear Sun Gurus,
>
>I have 2 SunUltra-1 with Solaris 2.5.1 in same LAN segment , one(A) is running
>Oracle Database, and the other one(B) with default system setup only.(No NIS 
>running)
>
>The symptom is,  
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    telnet from PC to A, after SYN/SYN/ACK handshake, it takes about 50 seconds 
>           to get login prompt. (monitored from Lan Analyzer) , after login,   
 
>           everything just works fine. also the same with ftp.
>    while telnet from PC to B and telnet from B to A is ok.
>
>    there is another Sun Sparc-1000 running Oracle has the same symptom, 
>         and another Sun Sparc-20 running Oracle has no login problem.
>
>ping from A to PC shows
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>	sunul01# ping -s 128.1.150.12(PC's IP Addr.)
>	PING 128.1.150.12: 56 data bytes
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=0. time=1. ms   
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=1. time=4001. ms         <---
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=2. time=3001. ms
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=3. time=2002. ms
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=4. time=1002. ms         <---
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=5. time=3. ms   
>	64 bytes from 128.1.150.12: icmp_seq=6. time=0. ms   
>
>My question is  
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>        It is obvious not a Lan cable problem, what might cause such slow
>        connection ?
>
>TIA
>
>Eric
>
>