Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:30:51 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.iafrica.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, mark@grondar.za, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960312202916.202A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199603121811.LAA06081@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > /etc/sysconfig; change: > tcp_extensions=YES > to: > tcp_extensions=NO Cool - have done so. > Well, I don't think a routing problem would effect the speed; if there > were a route problem, the packets just wouldn't get through in one > direction or the other or both. For a PPP link, it's not something > like "they get through, only slowly" like you would get with an > ethernet card with a bogus IRQ setting (only for some cards). But I have specified certain gateways, etc which might not be the fastest / proper way of doing this. > The advantage is they enable transactioning. You'd need to read the > new Steven's book for a full explanation, but basically, it cuts > packet overhead in about half. This machine is not on a network; so, as I understand it, don't need it with PPP ? > There was a discussion of this on the -hackers list a while back, asking > about relative compression statistics when compared to Linux. The Linux > numbers were several orders of magnitude better (ie: compression was > used more frequently) than BSD because of the compression defeat cause > by the header "changes" by T/TCP. So i.o.w disabling this will make the BSD speed comparable to Linux ? --- Thanx, Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/index.html Pipex-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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