From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 09:17:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B053316A402 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F1D13C4B3 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so663241ugh for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:17:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Oc8j69BqW/aO37YXAXSXs8N/T3lu3+2tQ3u0QgUUBCD5fd6+SREKlNGmRTKCH2odyD1l0gNMO7A0UHflkyQ6G7M9bVe18ocNsi/6o3gaL7lfp0qvXwbIgwUYPnCsrP0HF4DP7bgGKqpC4STifpfHN1kItC4IcUOGUpi9RjrnT/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OgEew5qGFK/6nXOB0wbqPoKTfMniP3W8afwYAtYFccpGkJXcBcWoay41HZKiisHCWwOEw95rq5TGi27L0yuc4nCEPwT79c7xWlP/3CQ+ccg3nWTEWvUeQQS2Gt94FNVEB2ebo+f1CFPdsxRci6pUco/2s8yEx6hL/ttRBrisI4o= Received: by 10.114.110.1 with SMTP id i1mr2011725wac.1172479937432; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:52:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.149.10 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:52:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <720051dc0702260052v8e4d2b2v9bbca164bfe87a4b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:52:17 +0000 From: "James Seward" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200702252202.l1PM2r46003312@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200702252202.l1PM2r46003312@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com> Subject: Re: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:17:31 -0000 On 2/25/07, J.D. Bronson wrote: > 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. Wow, this fixed my FTP-over-DSL-to-6.2 problem too. With modulate state, I was getting ~30K/sec. With just keep state, I'm now getting more like what my connection is capable of. This is between two 6.2 hosts on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Ted, I use pf because I like the format of the configuration file, I like the logging and pftop, and like how it's harder to lock yourself out of a remote machine by accident :) /JMS