Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:29:13 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Sarton O'Brien <sobrien@quicksilver.co.nz> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp gateway, speed and xfer rate determined how? Message-ID: <38D6FA99.2CAFF0F1@3-cities.com> References: <38D6C7DE.55203C98@quicksilver.co.nz>
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Sarton O'Brien wrote: > > Howdy, > > I have a FreeBSD gateway with user ppp configured for my home LAN. > > Works great, no problems but the speed does seem a little slow. > > I was wondering how do I go about finding out the connection speed and > determining how fast the tranfer rate is. I have a little aliases that does the following speed cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep ARQ | tail -1 status (pppctl /var/run/internet show phy) Only root on my system can check the status. It will tell you the latest transfer rate information. > > Also I was curious as to what factors hinder PPPs performance. This box > has very little RAM and a couple of daemons running, tetrinet-x, apache, > postgres postmaster, qmail + tcpserver and sshd. OKay, a few more than > a couple but I figure they lay dormant most of the time. I run setiathome, which keeps the cpu at 100%. I start it such that almost anything such as ppp has a higher priority. I see rates from 100's char/sec to 12KB/s or more depending on how much compression can be used between the modems. If I get a 46.66kb or lower connection, I usually drop ppp and have it redial. Kent > > I have observerd top during an ftp from my work, I am 3 hops from my > desktop\laptop and connected to a 2M line, the only bottleneck is the > modem. Top reported next to nothing in activity or memory usage. > > I have a Dynalink 56k modem, the gateway is a 486dx2-66 (a compaq > prolinea *cringe*) with 8Mb on board (embedded) and 8Mb additional, so > 16Mb total. > <snip> -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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