From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 7:27:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F2337B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:27:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0IFL7700165; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:21:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A6709BD.C2C6BD4C@mail.iowna.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:20:30 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Henderson Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd, modem, app oddity References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darren Henderson wrote: > Thanks, I'll give that a look this evening. Currently the modem is doing the > compression I believe, I've not given pppd any instructions regarding > compression so I really can't say if it is doing its thing as well (I can > see where two levels of compression would not be a good thing). I'd be surprised if this were the problem. (but you should probably check it out anyway) It reminds me of my youth when we asked the Idiotic Question "What happens if you compress a compressed file?" All that happens is that you get another layer of compression abstraction. The data doesn't get any more compressed - you actually increase the size of the file due to header stuff. The upshot of the silly experiment, however, was that you could zip within zip within zip (I think we tested to 6 layers or something) and get absolutely no data corruption. Your mention of MTUs got me thinking, though, especially since changing them changed the situation (a sure sign that you're on the right track) NFS apparently has problems on some machines that are caused by MTUs being too small. I'm wondering if your problem is similar. It's described here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/nfs.html at the bottom of the page. Perhaps the solution is to raise the MTU/MRU on the ppp line?? (I'm going out on a limb here, but I thought I'd share it on the outside chance that I was right) Hope this helps, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message