Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Ardi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgens?= <ardi.jyrgens@zone.ee> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem - ADSL clients & FreeBSD servers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10110150957590.28950-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <1003161324.922.18.camel@shitdaemon>
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On 15 Oct 2001, Ardi [ISO-8859-1] J=FCrgens wrote: =2E.. > Connections to BSD based servers are two times slower then connections > to servers on another platform, for example Linux or Solaris. =20 What exactly is slow? Time to open the connection? Or rate of data transfer once the connection is open? > The anomaly concerns only one specific bridged ADSL package (64k up, > 256k down), which includes mostly Nokia bridges on the client side and > has filtered incoming TCP connections by the Telco. It is also the=20 > only package in their list that uses PPPOE.=20 The most issue around PPPoE is that the fact that PPPoE connections use a MTU of 1492, and FreeBSD uses MTU patch detection which is dependent on being able to get ICMP responses back from the the PPPoE gateway. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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