From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 20 18:45:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA16526 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 18:45:22 -0700 Received: from mpp.com (dialup-4-38.gw.umn.edu [128.101.96.38]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA16520 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 18:45:19 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA00881; Sat, 20 May 1995 20:38:57 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199505210138.UAA00881@mpp.com> Subject: Re: slow ftp sends over slip link To: nc@ai.net (Network Coordinator) Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 20:38:57 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Coordinator" at May 20, 95 02:26:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 785 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Try using hardware flow control. It sounds like with FreeFall the latency > is high enough that its not needed, but with your local ISP your modem is > getting thrown 30 or so K of data and then FTP or TCP [I don't remember > which does the error correction in that sort of situtation] realizes it > hasn't been rec'd correctly and resends it. That is why you are getting > .3K/sec. On the receive side your modem is receiving as fast as it can. >... > -Jerry. Yes, it did turn out to be a flow control problem (modem was doing it, software wasn't). Adding "-F hw" to my startslip command cleared everything up. Thanks to everyone who responded here and via e-mail. -- Mike Pritchard pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"