From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 15 10:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357DB37B410 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 15tB6R-0001X4-00; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:00:35 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Ardi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgens?= Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem - ADSL clients & FreeBSD servers In-Reply-To: <1003161324.922.18.camel@shitdaemon> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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