From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 21:37:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A1537B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418D543E52 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g694bTtD031723; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:37:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:37:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Tim Kellers Cc: questions@freebsd.org, kellers@njit.edu Subject: Re: NFS/NIS... arg! Message-ID: <20020709043729.GE13884@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020707185443.GE52229@dan.emsphone.com> <20020709002047.C94254-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709002047.C94254-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 09), Tim Kellers said: > Not "snappy" means palpably slow. Imagine a shared dialup network > connection with more than one machine attempting downloads. > > To be a bit more concrete, I can login via the CLI, but AI have to > wait several seconds before my typed commands echo back on the > originating workstation. I think I've got some network gremlins to > contend with but I appreciate any input you might have, and thanks > for the reply. So you're talking about latency typing characters at the shell prompt? That doesn't make much sense at all, assuming you're on a local console. If you're telnetting into the server, it sounds like bad packet loss. Try tcpdumping the telnet port on both client and server and see what both ends are doing. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message