Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:14:28 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP Performance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970508131335.4479H@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3371406D.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Shawn Carey wrote: > Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > [...] > > > > Alternatively, try reducing the MTU and MRU of ppp's tun interface to 552 > > or 1064. That cured Robert Chalmers' problem with his ISP's Ascend routers. > Yes! That did it, thanks very much! I'm glad. > One small thing: The only way I was able to effectively change the MTU > was by hacking the ppp source to change DEF_MRU to 1064 in hdlc.h. > Using ppp's "set mru" and "set mtu" options did not work - the interface > would go back to 1500 as soon as I connected with my ISP, even though I > changed tun0's MTU manually with ifconfig. Am I doing something wrong, > or is ppp broken? At any rate, I can certainly live with this since my > ISP is the only system I typically connect to. This is strange. Perhaps some else can comment. Brian? Eivind? Andrey? Danny
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