From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 16:20:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA12957 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:20:30 -0700 Received: from mpp.minn.net ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA12946 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:20:27 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA15276; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:21:37 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199507272321.SAA15276@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: Two questions To: lafollet@andante.cis.temple.edu (Paul LaFollette) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:21:36 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507260838.EAA19620@andante.cis.temple.edu> from "Paul LaFollette" at Jul 26, 95 04:38:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 629 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Paul LaFollette wrote: > > 2) pppd is up and running happily between my 2.0.5 machines in home and office. > I notice the strange thing, though, that sometimes an ftp from office to > home will just hang after a bit... then perhaps restart very slowly. > However, if i open another window and ping office from home during the transfer,the ftp transfer resumes its normal speed. Is this normal? That sounds like a flow control problem. Check and make sure the modem and pppd are both using the same type of flow control. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"