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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Modem latencies (was Re: ppp over vty possible ? ) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:45:20 MDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:00:23 -0700
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>I usually average around ~120ms, although I have seen it drop to 115ms
>at times.  If I turned off modem compression I think I could get it down
>to 110ms.

   Use smaller ping packets. ping -s 8 <other side>

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project