Router config question on point to point setup

What is the clients default gateway on each end of the T1?  The 1841 or a local Firewall for Internet access?

On my side the Kentucky side my default gateway is 192.168.201.1 the default gateway in Salem is 192.168.205.1

On the Salem side, is 192.168.205.1 the LAN interface of the 1841? or a different device?

yes my side gateway 192.168.201.1 is my 1841 and the salem side 192.168.205.1 is the 1841 on their side.

That is interesting, you say you can't ping from your router to the 192.168.205.x hosts?  You should be able to as long as the gateways are the 1841's.

Where does the 192.168.204.x subnet come into play?  Is that part of the equation?

The routers I'm sure connect to a switch...we experienced this type issue when there was a speed/duplex mismatch between the router switch or the switch server.  The fact that any traffic is being passed may indicate the issue may not be on the routers.  Something else may be breaking the transmissions.

Can you ping 192.168.201.1 from the Kentucky router?

The .204 subnet is another network on the Salem end of the T1

Is that the subnet you can't ping from your router?

Add a route for it and remove the invalid route:

no ip route 192.168.204.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.205.1
ip route 192.168.204.0 255.255.255.0 172.*.*.2

Yes I can ping the 192.168.201.1 and the 192.168.205.1 from either router

Couple things:

1) The static route statement "ip route 192.168.204.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.205.1" is incorrect. It should (probably) be "ip route 192.168.204.0 255.255.255.0 172.x.x.2"

2) There's no need to mask inside private addresses. Nobody can access them anyway, especially on a point-to-point T1 link.

3) You've got RIP and static routes. Can you post the routing table for both routers.

Ky side
East-Bernstadt#show ip route
Codes: C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP
       D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area
       N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2
       E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2
       i - IS-IS, su - IS-IS summary, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2
       ia - IS-IS inter area, * - candidate default, U - per-user static route
       o - ODR, P - periodic downloaded static route

Gateway of last resort is 172.*.*.2 to network 0.0.0.0

     172.30.0.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets
C       172.30.1.0 is directly connected, Serial0/0/0
C    192.168.201.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0
S    192.168.204.0/24 [1/0] via 192.168.205.1
S    192.168.205.0/24 [1/0] via 172.30.1.2
S*   0.0.0.0/0 [1/0] via 172.*.*.2

Salem Side
Salem#show ip route
Codes: C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP
       D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter

area
       N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type

2
       E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2
       i - IS-IS, su - IS-IS summary, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS

level-2
       ia - IS-IS inter area, * - candidate default, U - per-user

static route
       o - ODR, P - periodic downloaded static route

Gateway of last resort is 192.168.205.101 to network 0.0.0.0

     172.*.*0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets
C       172.*.*.0 is directly connected, Serial0/0/0
S    192.168.201.0/24 [1/0] via 172.*.*.1
S    192.168.204.0/24 [1/0] via 192.168.205.101
C    192.168.205.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0
R    192.168.206.0/24 [120/1] via 192.168.205.101, 00:00:25,

FastEthernet0/0
S*   0.0.0.0/0 [1/0] via 192.168.205.101

So, what exactly is the problem?  From what to what doesn't work?

Since you are running RIP and you have more subnets than first let on, fix the RIP config on the 1841's:

router rip
network 172.x.x.x  <--the serial subnet

Also, make sure you remove this route:

no ip route 192.168.204.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.205.1

Can the 192.168.205.0 PC's ping the 172.30.1.1 address?
 
 If they can and the Kentucky router can't ping them back, then it's probably the firewall on the PC's blocking ICMP requests.

The only real issue is any connections to our SQL server on the 192.168.205.* network takes about 10 mins to connect, and can't ping from the Ky router to andy Salem Hosts

For the SQL slowness, I assume this slowness isn't present on the 192.168.205.x subnet, right?  I would double check speed/duplex settings on the router and switch ports on the Kentucky side.  What is the bandwidth utilization on the T1 when SQL is slow?

No SQL is fine on the Salem end the 192.168.205.*  all the switches are running full duplex gig copper, the routers are set to auto speed auto duplex, will have to check on the utilization, and thanks to everyone for all the help.