From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 00:37:31 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 EBCD816A403 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from outbound.mailhop.org (outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C421213C478 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from adsl-69-210-44-126.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([69.210.44.126] helo=cheyenne.sixcompanies.com) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HLRSJ-000JZc-AU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:02:55 -0500 Received: from coors.sixcompanies.com (coors.sixcompanies.com [10.43.82.5]) by cheyenne.sixcompanies.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1PM2r46003312 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:02:53 -0600 (CST) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 69.210.44.126 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: lonebandit Message-Id: <200702252202.l1PM2r46003312@cheyenne.sixcompanies.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:02:36 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.D. Bronson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: 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 00:37:32 -0000 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