Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:37:51 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: improving transport over lossy links ? Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060519153601.117978c0@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <446E1D41.9070301@mac.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060520014045.15967A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <446E1868.8020704@elischer.org> <446E1D41.9070301@mac.com>
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At 03:32 PM 19/05/2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Agreed. If you can live with doing so, using an MTU of around 512
>worked pretty well back in the days that I was using a 19200 baud
>DOV (data over voice modem) that tended to experience line noise &
>hence packet drops when you got an incoming voice call; if you've
>got a high-noise environment, well, that would be similar.
>
>Of course, you should make sure that obvious fixes like replacing
>phone cabling or re-punching down the phone lines at your demarc
>(assuming you have 66 or 110 blocks) doesn't help.
Thanks, unfortunately, these are very remote sites in industrial and
rural areas where xconnect boxes tend to be rusty posts. I will try
a lower MTU size to see how it deals with errors.
---Mike
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