From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 15:19:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8350237B402 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0INIoe02282; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:18:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <00db01c081a5$0841f0a0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Doug Young" , "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <20010109081844.A14318@itouchnz.itouch> <000a01c079b3$86b946d0$837e03cb@dougy> Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:18:11 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Finally got to the bottom of this ...... turned out to be some weird phone line issue even though the "experts" at Tel$tra kept claiming the line was OK. We are considering various broadband options at present & looks like DSL will be the most available setup in immediate future ...... hopefully it works better than the broken fourth world PSTN system we have here. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:42 AM Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue > Thanks for the response John > > The "ISP" in this case is a non-profit organization that provides access for > its members ..... I'm on both the state & federal management committees so I > get to mess around with anything that needs doing. The local "POP" runs > FreeBSD 4.1 ...... is there something that needs to be configured there to > stop this problem happening for other users as well, or is it necessary for > the "fix" you suggested to be applied to all FreeBSD client installations ?? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Chen" > To: "Doug Young" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:18 AM > Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue > > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:53PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > > Are there any unreported issues with user-ppp in 4.2 RELEASE ?? > > > > > > Since building a 4.2 system I'm getting weirdness where the > > > permanent dialup link appears to lock maybe once per day, although it > > > doesn't disconnect. Sometimes only http / ftp is affected, but even then > > > its slowed considerably ... mostly all services die totally & the > machine > > > refuses to respond to keyboard commands. > > > > Some ISPs have a problem with the compression protocol used by ppp. > > You may try adding the following to the appropriate ISP entry: > > > > deny pred1 > > disable pred1 > > > > Cheers. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity > > -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message