From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 5 17:17:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55C614BDA for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id RAA77164; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:15:25 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199912060115.RAA77164@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: natd is jumpy In-Reply-To: <199912052252.RAA66212@dean.pc.sas.com> from Brian Dean at "Dec 5, 1999 05:52:28 pm" To: brdean@unx.sas.com (Brian Dean) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 17:15:25 -0800 (PST) Cc: rfg@monkeys.com (Ronald F. Guilmette), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Dean writes: > No dropped packets, but definitely some occasional long delays before > I get the echo. However, I must concede, based on other respondants, > that something else must be going on and I cannot necessarily > attribute this to divert/firewall/natd. > > However, the above numbers don't really illustrate the long response > times that I experience while typing at the shell prompt, or in elm. > It's really frustrating. > > I have an external US Robotics Sportster modem and I can see the rx/tx > leds which are both off during the times when there was a delay, so I > can confirm that there was no other line-contention on my end. Could be you have a noisy line and your modem error correction is kicking in. Try configuring your modem to disable error correction and see if it changes things. This is consistent with your rx/tx lights -- typically they only light up when there's traffic on the serial line (not the telephone line). -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message