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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:09:58 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp mtu/mru 
Message-ID:  <199712232109.VAA13858@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:08:01 EST." <67ouit$ck2$1@twwells.com> 

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> On a related subject.... ppp does priority queuing for telnet and
> such. However, it doesn't have much effect because the serial
> driver *also* buffers data. This makes interactive use during,
> e.g., news downloads really painful.... And thoughts on how to
> improve this?

Not really.  We need to have the sio buffering so that there'll be a 
continuous stream of data to send (while ppp's doing other things).

I would think that the default max queue size (2248 bytes?) would be 
sufficient for good response with a reasonably fast modem - a 33.6k 
modem should send 2248 bytes in about .53 of a second.
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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