Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:28:07 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Michael Vioreanu <mikejv@wolf.nji.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Michael J. Vioreanu" <mjv5296@megahertz.njit.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extremely slow ppp Message-ID: <199806092328.AAA04460@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 08:01:45 EDT." <Pine.LNX.3.91.980609075813.13826B-100000@wolf>
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> Upon the suggestion of someone else, I turned off compression. I did
> this by adding -vj -ac -pc -bsdcomp to the pppd line, or adding related
> options to my ppp.conf file for user ppp. It seems to have done the
> trick. The only compression I forsee as still being there is the modem
> comprssion(V.42bis). I do not know if it's one, some, or all of those
> compressions that have caused the problem, nor do I know how to test the
> total bandwidth of the connection in order to use the most efficient
> compression(s).
VJ compression is probably the culprit. Broken VJ implementations
will work slowly rather than hanging completely.
To test your bandwidth, ``enable throughput'' in ppp (this is the
default in the latest version).
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mike V
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