Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:15:33 +0000 From: Rob <robert@irrelevant.com> To: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> In-Reply-To: <001801c3f40b$2e2c0400$6a7ba8c0@phoenix>
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At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: >[snip] >My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 >[snip] >It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small >files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new >terminal to kill the process. It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: #ifconfig <network_interface> mtu 1438 and see if that makes a difference. There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more.
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