From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 22:49:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA10370 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA10364 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:49:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00355; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:49:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:49:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Daniel Keller cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: questions In-Reply-To: <199612230713.XAA00058@psln1.psln.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Daniel Keller wrote: > I have some questions : > > 1. My modem speed is 14400 bps. someone said that because I was probably > using hardware compression I should set the port speed higher. for the user > ppp program how high should I set the port speed? How do I enable hardware > compression? Use 57600 or 38400. > 2. when I ftp sometimes the connection is brocken or something else makes > me terminate the connection, is there any way I can start receving a file > where I left off instead of at the start? ncftp supports this operation. It's in the ports or package trees. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major