From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 9:46:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F095837B8D8 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05653 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:44:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: parallel cable IP is too slow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I have two FreeBSD 4.0 boxes connected via a parallel cable interface lp0. > One of them uses PPP over phone line to connect to the outside world. If > I do a ftp/telnet on the PPP machine, it works fine. If I do ftp/telnet > on the other machine, it times out. I am wondering whether IP over > parallel cable is just too slow that it can only connect two machines > directly. > The problem is not that the parallel link is slow. I have been able to do telnet from the other machine. I am still trying to find out the real reason. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message