Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improper sharing of modem bandwidth Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810061630560.9788-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9810070120160.32491-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > initiate a file download it tends to consume all available modem bandwidth, to > the exclusion of all other things like open telnet sessions. Once the download > This is the source of the recent comment I made here re binary transfers > coming through at a faster rate than usual (1.7k, which is probably the > absolute limit for my modem when you include protocol overhead). I suspect that your system is negotiating a very large TCP window. This means that a very large amount of data will queue at the other end of your PPP link, blocking other traffic. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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