From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 0:25:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F3D151AB for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_bailey@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (pool0562.cvx6-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.178.160.52]) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA04187 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3785A3B0.85C6E09D@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:24:33 -0700 From: Kevin Bailey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't surf while downloading Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm consistently seeing an annoying problem: while downloading using FTP, the IP stack seems to be inaccessible. Domain name look-ups time-out, netstat (no params) just hangs, etc. Yet top doesn't show anything spinning. I'm using userland ppp on 3.2. ppp is my only interface. If there's no obvious solution, is there a way to throttle the FTP ? Can I play with the TCP window size dynamically ? TIA, krb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message