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PPP Slowdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Lebihan)
Sat Aug 26 11:25:45 1995
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 22:23:45 +0200
From: elebihan@moorea.univ-brest.fr (Eric Lebihan)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I am using PPP since march, and i recently upgrade to Kernel 1.2.13 and ppp 2.1.2d.
With the slackware ppp (2.1.2a or b?), i was able to make a ftp link and get as many files
as I wanted. But since i upgraded, ftp seems to sleep. No more packets are transmitted.
But the pc is responding and i can telnet the same host and it works!
If a deconnect FTP, and retry, I may be able to download about 150 ko but no more.
It's the first time I see this problem with ppp.
My second problem is speed. I can't achieve more than 1Ko/s. Bad. On the same file,
I achieve 1.5Ko under Wind*ws. I noticed that, during the transfert, ppp seems to be waiting
every 5-6 1024Ko block (hash on). it may wait as long as 5 seconds!
If I look thru /proc/net/dev, i can see errors 1/3 waiting sequence. I also have
errors (about 5-10%).
The other side is a Silicon Indigo running Irix 5.3.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
