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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:16:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
To:        Jonathan Hahn <hahn@and.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Latency problem with pppd/Telebit Netblazer
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960129121235.520B-100000@knobel.gun.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601280827.AAA17566@and.com>

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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Jonathan Hahn wrote:

> I am using pppd under FreeBSD 2.1, my ISP (Bay Area Internet
> Solutions) has a Telebit Netblazer.  Ever since I switched to this
> ISP, I noticed a very annoying latency on outbound characters.  I
> could type text into an xterm window and it would take from 1-4
> seconds to get transmitted over my modem; and I could get 30+Kb/sec
> inbound but just ~4Kb/sec outbound.  (I didn't have this problem
> with my previous ISP (Best) who uses Livingston boxes.)
> 
> I tried one change to my software/hardware config after another.
> I finally found the cause of the problem: it goes away when I
> disable Van Jacobsen header compression (-vj on the pppd command
> line).  My ISP says everyone else uses VJ compression and has no
> problem.  All I know is, it caused me much grief.
> 
> Hope others can benefit from my experience.

Same for me. When I switched from FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 to FreeBSD 2.X 
(don't remember exactly the release), then the Xyplex Terminal
Server of my ISP simply hung (the whole t-server!). The problem could 
be tracked down. So after disabling VJ compression completely on the 
Xyplex for my machine (ppp account) cured the problem.

We didn't try -currents ppp vj compression 'til yet.

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