From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 10:39:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24703 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24692 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id SAA24880; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:38:12 +0100 (BST) To: Zach Heilig cc: Jaye Mathisen , David Greenman , Network Coordinator , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Increasing FTP thruput. In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Jul 1996 03:00:14 CDT." <87hgrjdvjl.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:38:12 +0100 Message-ID: <24878.836847492@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Zach Heilig wrote in message ID <87hgrjdvjl.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com>: > I noticed the same thing when I upgraded from the iijppp that came > with 2.1.0-RELEASE to the -stable version (the -RELEASE version had a > habit of hanging up during long transfers, the -stable one doesn't > seem to). Ftp rates dropped from a solid 1.4K-1.5K/sec (14.4K modem) > to about .57K/sec (from the machine directly on the other side of the > link, i.e. remote -> phone -> local). My rates are back up to > 1.5K/sec mostly (1.3K/sec if I'm doing interactive stuff over the > link, which is actually usable while ftp'ing now), after making a > slight tweak to the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. I added the following > lines, I don't know which one is responsible: > set debug none > disable pred1 > deny pred1 > disable lqr > deny lqr Weird. I've been running iijppp for over a year now, and have been upgrading regularly, and on a 28k8 I can get 5k/sec (text) download relatively easily (with the latest version in -stable). I wonder if this has to do with the box you are talking to? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info