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Date:      21 Jan 2000 16:12:01 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: New speed record?
Message-ID:  <xzp1z7bmpby.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:27:31 %2B0530"
References:  <20000121172731.B517@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> All this has me wondering why.  It seems that ftp gets particularly
> bad performance when transferring full frames (1460 bytes payload).
> While this transfer is (not) progressing, I can access the system at
> the other end interactively.  It seems that if I could persuade ftpd
> to send smaller frames, I might get better throughput.  Does anybody
> have opinions?

Maybe some routers are configured to give small packets priority over
large ones? Lower the MTU on your interface, see if it helps.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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