Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 08:32:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP Performance Message-ID: <199705080732.IAA00849@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 22:54:37 EDT." <3371406D.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
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> Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Alternatively, try reducing the MTU and MRU of ppp's tun interface to 552
> > or 1064. That cured Robert Chalmers' problem with his ISP's Ascend routers.
> >
>
> Yes! That did it, thanks very much!
If you're running -current, I'd appreciate if you'd try putting the
MTU back and running with last nights patches. This may be a
vj compression problem that should now be fixed. I'd appreciate
any comments you have.
> One small thing: The only way I was able to effectively change the MTU
> was by hacking the ppp source to change DEF_MRU to 1064 in hdlc.h.
> Using ppp's "set mru" and "set mtu" options did not work - the interface
> would go back to 1500 as soon as I connected with my ISP, even though I
> changed tun0's MTU manually with ifconfig. Am I doing something wrong,
> or is ppp broken? At any rate, I can certainly live with this since my
> ISP is the only system I typically connect to.
This was mentioned a while ago and is on my slate. Looks like a
bug, and it's definitely known.
> Thanks again,
> -Shawn
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