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To: Danny Dulai <nirva@zynet.com>
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Subject: Re: Telnet Slowdown 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:50:59 MST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:40:32 -0800
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>      I am trying to telnet from a FreeBSD 2.1.0 machine to
>   a FreeBSD machine, and it is VERY slow, it takes a few
>   minutes for my login prompt to appear (this is over a
>   28.8k link).  However, when I telnet to a Linux machine
>   and then telnet to the FreeBSD machine, its an acceptable
>   speed.  Pings from the FreeBSD to the FreeBSD machines
>   are normal. Rlogin and FTP are a bit better than telnet,
>   but not much... still that horrible slowdown.
>
>   Any suggestions on a solution to this problem?

   Let me try a guess or two. You're connecting with a terminal server that
doesn't understand TCP options/extensions - like an Annex? Try changing
"tcp_extensions" to NO in /etc/sysconfig.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project