From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 16:56:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05060 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:56:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA05055 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA13456 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:51:49 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA20707; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:15:01 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602230045.LAA20707@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Telnet Slowdown (fwd) To: shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:15:01 +1030 (CST) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, root@buffnet.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Hovey" at Feb 22, 96 01:16:36 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Stephen Hovey stands accused of saying: > > > > > Im not out to start a fight - I think FreeBSD has many wonderful features > > > and I use it for a few things even though the tcp/ip has troubles. > > > > I have seen no evidence to support this claim. Pony up. > > The basic symptom is a stall - as though the sockets werent any good > anymore without an error message. > > If my trumpet users do not have van jacobson compression turned on for > instance, they can connect to my freebsd news server, but cannot > successfully pull over the entire active headers - it stops after a > couple records. As a registered Trumpet user (yecch, to hear myself admitting the fact 8) I can happily observe that this isn't necessarily a Trumpet feature. Using both SLIP and PPP, with and without VJ compression, I can successfully smurf mail, news, DNS records and large web pages. (Small 386 under WfW 3.11). I _did_ experience severe problems with Trumpet and 16550-clone UARTs. Have you spoken to TSI about this? I'm sure they'd be interested in knowing that their product fails to interoperate with the reference implementation. > If I ftp to ftp.cdrom.com using a freebsd on my ethernet ring to theirs, > I can connect ok, and things seem ok, unless I cd and ls too many times. > I can maybe do 10 or 15 commands, and then it stalls. I can issue ls and > it returns back like there are no files there or something. But I can cd > and ls till Im blue with one of my sco's connected to that same ftp server. Again, this isn't a generally-observed symptom. If you're in a position to reduce the problem to the fewest required parts and document it in a repeatable fashion, I'm certain that something could be done to identify and resolve the problem. Meantime, nobody else can help because we don't see these problems. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[