From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 11: 4: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF95152AC for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:03:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 125Cll-000PdD-00; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:03:53 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA37584; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:03:52 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:03:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Kent Stewart Cc: Dru , ong1s@cmich.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.4 kernel, ppp -auto shutdown In-Reply-To: <386FAD2E.9827B64A@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > >Actually, you should set it faster than that. In order to fully do the >v42.bis compression, you need a rate that is ~4x your connect rate. At >56kb, that would be 230,400 but most systems have 115,200 as a divisor >of 1 for the uart and they won't go that high. If you have a slow >system, it may not be able to support sio at 115200 and you could have >to drop it until everything is reliable. He may need to specify >rts/cts buffering. It seems like the system defaults to everything >proper except the speed of 115200. I have a 56K PCMCIA modem card in my laptop, and that speed statement was the cause of all my dropped connection woes. Once i changed it to 57600, everything worked fine. My connection has been solid as a rock since then. -=> jm <=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message