From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 18:16:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CA116A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-2.mdc.net (smtp-2.mdc.net [209.251.64.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23BC43D31 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthew@netway.com) Received: from admin1.mdc.net (admin1.mdc.net [209.251.64.23]) by smtp-2.mdc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA87360; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:14:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matthew@netway.com) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 21:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: matthew X-X-Sender: matthew@admin1.mdc.net To: Rob In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> Message-ID: <20040215211307.S39761@admin1.mdc.net> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Graham North Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:16:12 -0000 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Rob wrote: > At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: > >[snip] > >My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 > >[snip] > >It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small > >files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new > >terminal to kill the process. > > It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL > link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better > performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, > but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: > > #ifconfig mtu 1438 > > and see if that makes a difference. > > There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, > and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more. > > While i have never heard of someone doing that on plain ethernet LAN, I have seen a bad cable do exactly what he is complaining about. The download starts off fast, the quickly trickles to nothing. One of the wires simply does not have solid contact. m > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >