From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 13:29:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD9F37B727 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dougy (dougy.apana.org.au [203.3.126.131]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f08KgWA04094; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:42:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <000a01c079b3$86b946d0$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <20010109081844.A14318@itouchnz.itouch> Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:42:31 +1000 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the response John The "ISP" in this case is a non-profit organization that provides access for its members ..... I'm on both the state & federal management committees so I get to mess around with anything that needs doing. The local "POP" runs FreeBSD 4.1 ...... is there something that needs to be configured there to stop this problem happening for other users as well, or is it necessary for the "fix" you suggested to be applied to all FreeBSD client installations ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Chen" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:18 AM Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:53PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > Are there any unreported issues with user-ppp in 4.2 RELEASE ?? > > > > Since building a 4.2 system I'm getting weirdness where the > > permanent dialup link appears to lock maybe once per day, although it > > doesn't disconnect. Sometimes only http / ftp is affected, but even then > > its slowed considerably ... mostly all services die totally & the machine > > refuses to respond to keyboard commands. > > Some ISPs have a problem with the compression protocol used by ppp. > You may try adding the following to the appropriate ISP entry: > > deny pred1 > disable pred1 > > Cheers. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity > -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message