From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 16:39:10 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 B435E16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:39:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C39A43D48 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:39:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAJGcixU090766 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:38:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <419E218E.4020606@mac.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:38:38 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lewis Thompson References: <20041118190809.GA4827@fajita.org> In-Reply-To: <20041118190809.GA4827@fajita.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: pf/altq prioritisation (for ssh). 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: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:39:10 -0000 Lewis Thompson wrote: > I'm pretty sure this ``works'' but I was really hoping for more. > Without the 5.3 miniinst ISO downloading a SSH connection is perfect (no > lag, just like the local machine) but as soon as I set it going it > becomes a bit laggy. Am I expecting too much to have a lag-free SSH > connection while downloading something at the same time? Any other > alternatives? You didn't mention what your connection speed was, and whether it is asymmetrical (for example, 768/128 ADSL is common). However, using ssh with compression (-C flag?) offers significant improvement for interactive use in low-bandwidth situations, such as trying to SSH and download a 200MB ISO image at the same time over a 56Kbs dialup link. :-) Also, you will probably benefit if you priorize DNS and NTP traffic as well, by adding 53 & 123 (both UDP and TCP) to the high-priority queue. -- -Chuck