From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 10:35:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA04621 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:35:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA04611 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:35:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00212; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:30:51 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:30:51 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, mark@grondar.za, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems In-Reply-To: <199603121811.LAA06081@phaeton.artisoft.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 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