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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:03:24 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow ssh throughput with -current
Message-ID:  <20000817090324.A32185@cicely5.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <00Aug14.140905est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:09:01PM %2B1000
References:  <00Aug10.153604est.115242@border.alcanet.com.au> <00Aug14.140905est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au>

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On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:09:01PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2000-Aug-10 15:36:01 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> wrote:
> >I just noticed a really peculiar network slowdown with -current from
> >about a week ago.  The machine has two NICs - an old 16-bit SMC card
> >(ed0) running 10baseT and a PCI SMC card (tx0) running 100baseTX full
> >duplex.
> >
> >When I scp (either ssh-1.2.27 or OpenSSH) to a remote machine via ed0,
> >I get a throughput of ~8KB/sec.  When I go via tx0, I get ~3MB/sec
> >(CPU limited).  If I use ftp via ed0, I get wire speed (just over
> >1MB/sec).
> 
> Having done some more tests, and a bit more digging, I've found
> the culprit is net.inet.tcp.newreno.  When set to 1 (the default),
> ssh (but not FTP) connections to hosts not on the same subnet
> (as determined by in_localaddr()) have an effective window size of
> 1 MSS.

Same here.
It seems that the default was 0 before at least on a current system from
July.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de



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