From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 7:12:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D128514C0C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 07:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA29944; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:12:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: New speed record? References: <20000121172731.B517@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jan 2000 16:12:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:27:31 +0530" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message