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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:00:20 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>
Subject:   Re: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2
Message-ID:  <004001c75941$7cedbd10$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
References:  <200702252202.l1PM2r46003312@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com>

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any reason you need to use pf instead of ipfw?

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2


> I was noticing sporadic FTP transfers DOWN to my fbsd 6.2 machine
> over my DSL line...it would go/pause/go/pause - just a bit, but
> overall slowed the transfers down quite a bit.
>
> I looked at my pf.conf file and changed MODULATE state to KEEP state
> in all places and my issues went away....fast clean consistent downloads.
>
> If I changed it back...the issues came back.
>
> is this expected behavior? - the machine is a p4-3.06 with 1GB ram
> and hardly doing anything but PPPoE and pf with NAT.
>
> Anyone have any comments they could share?
>
> -JD
>
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