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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 1997 04:51:08 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP 'Bursts' with newest 3.0-CURRENT... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970831044025.12587x-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <199708241052.LAA19878@awfulhak.org>

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On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> > 
> > Hi...
> > 	
> > 	I'm really curious as to whether anyone has experience with this.  I'm 
> > running 3.0-CURRENT, and have just upgraded to the newest source tree (as of
> > today) in the hopes of reducing/eliminating the following 'hills and
> > valleys':
> > 
> > =================
> > # netstat -nr
> > Routing tables
> > 
> > Internet:
> > Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
> > default            127.2.2.2          UGSc       12        0      tun0
> > 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       44       lo0
> > 206.231.247.114    206.231.248.173    UH          0        0      tun0
> 
> Let me guess that your ppp.conf contains:
> 
>  set ifaddr x.x.x.x 127.2.2.2
>  add 0 0 127.2.2.2
> 
> And your ppp.linkup *doesn't* contain
> 
>  delete all
>  add 0 0 hisaddr

	Added this, you were right, in that I was missing it for this ISP...
had it for one of the other ones though :(

	Still doesn't help though :(  

	The modem is a Magitronic 33.6 (don't ask, I haven't got a clue...a
friend gave it to me and swears it works on every other system he's used it
in :( ).  Oh, its an internal modem, so no lights to watch flicker.  The ISP
is Internet Canada, using its POP in Halifax, NS, which uses a Netblazer for
its dialup pool (figured I'd throw out *as much* info as I could think of).

	Here's what I have now:

==========[ ppp.conf ]==========
default:
 set device /dev/ttyd2
 set speed 57600 
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT&FM0X3&W OK-AT-OK \\dA
TDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
 disable lqr
 deny lqr
 disable pred1
 deny pred1
 set redial 3 10
ican-chap:
 set authname XXXXXXXX
 set authkey XXXXXXXX
 set phone 4257110
 set openmode active
 accept chap
 set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.2.2.2/0 255.255.255.0
 add 0 0 127.2.2.2
 set timeout 300
============

==========[ ppp.linkup ]======
ican-chap:
 delete all
 add 0 0 hisaddr
============================

======[ netstat -nr ]======
# netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
default            206.231.247.114    UGSc        7       54      tun0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2   154331       lo0
127.2.2.2          127.1.1.1          UH          0        0      tun0
206.231.247.114    206.231.248.147    UH          8        0      tun0
=====================

> What sort of sustained throughput do you get with ftp ?  That's 
> usually a good indication of how the line's really behaving.  I'm no 
> expert on this though.  My ISP is drifting into another phase of 
> lousy service (doing big commits scares me 'cos I don't know if I'm 
> going to lose the line due to a 300 second timeout).

	I just used Netscape to grab the jdk 1.0.2 binaries, with no other
traffic on the line, and I was lucky to get 1k/sec :(  I also tried using
ncftp to send up a file to my server, and it got one file sent and then closed
the connection to to "time out"...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 




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