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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:15:01 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        shovey@buffnet.net (Stephen Hovey)
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, root@buffnet.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Telnet Slowdown (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199602230045.LAA20707@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960222130621.18258C-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> from "Stephen Hovey" at Feb 22, 96 01:16:36 pm

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Stephen Hovey stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > > Im not out to start a fight - I think FreeBSD has many wonderful features
> > > and I use it for a few things even though the tcp/ip has troubles.
> > 
> > I have seen no evidence to support this claim.  Pony up.
> 
> The basic symptom is a stall - as though the sockets werent any good 
> anymore without an error message.
> 
> If my trumpet users do not have van jacobson compression turned on for 
> instance, they can connect to my freebsd news server, but cannot 
> successfully pull over the entire active headers - it stops after a 
> couple records. 

As a registered Trumpet user (yecch, to hear myself admitting the fact 8)
I can happily observe that this isn't necessarily a Trumpet feature.

Using both SLIP and PPP, with and without VJ compression, I can 
successfully smurf mail, news, DNS records and large web pages.
(Small 386 under WfW 3.11).

I _did_ experience severe problems with Trumpet and 16550-clone UARTs.

Have you spoken to TSI about this?  I'm sure they'd be interested in
knowing that their product fails to interoperate with the reference
implementation.

> If I ftp to ftp.cdrom.com using a freebsd on my ethernet ring to theirs, 
> I can connect ok, and things seem ok, unless I cd and ls too many times.  
> I can maybe do 10 or 15 commands, and then it stalls.  I can issue ls and 
> it returns back like there are no files there or something.  But I can cd 
> and ls till Im blue with one of my sco's connected to that same ftp server.

Again, this isn't a generally-observed symptom.
If you're in a position to reduce the problem to the fewest required parts
and document it in a repeatable fashion, I'm certain that something could
be done to identify and resolve the problem.

Meantime, nobody else can help because we don't see these problems.

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