From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 01:01:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D46316A405 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3632213C442 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l1Q11WW2020976; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:01:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <004001c75941$7cedbd10$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , "J.D. Bronson" References: <200702252202.l1PM2r46003312@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:00:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:01:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: Subject: Re: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:01:34 -0000 any reason you need to use pf instead of ipfw? Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.D. Bronson" To: Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:02 PM Subject: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2 > I was noticing sporadic FTP transfers DOWN to my fbsd 6.2 machine > over my DSL line...it would go/pause/go/pause - just a bit, but > overall slowed the transfers down quite a bit. > > I looked at my pf.conf file and changed MODULATE state to KEEP state > in all places and my issues went away....fast clean consistent downloads. > > If I changed it back...the issues came back. > > is this expected behavior? - the machine is a p4-3.06 with 1GB ram > and hardly doing anything but PPPoE and pf with NAT. > > Anyone have any comments they could share? > > -JD > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >