Subject: Re: Poor T1 performance
To: Kevin Sullivan <ksulliva@kludge.psc.edu>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/02/1995 18:51:25
>
> I'm seeing an odd thing here. I have two NetBSD machines connected by
> Netblazers and a T1 link. Neither NetBSD machine is routing anything.
> UDP connections between the NetBSD machines are normal speed, but TCP
> connections have horrible delays and move data at ~400 bytes/sec.
>
> TCP connections between a NetBSD machine and an Ultrix machine which
> cross the T1 link (and also ones that don't) are fine. It is only
> when NetBSD is on both ends and the T1 in the middle that the slowdown
> occurs. This is with NetBSD-current (about 4 days old). The same
> thing happens with a 56K line rather than a T1, and also when one or
> both machines run NetBSD 1.0.
I can't offer any help, but a friend of mine and I have seen this!
We both have a ppp connection into a Netblazer, and if I try to telnet
from my NetBSD 1.0/i386 box to his 1.0/i386 box, it is horribly slow.
If I telnet from my box to the netblazer, then to his box it is
back like it should be... I thought I was nuts and never mentioned
it, but I'm glad to hear I'm not alone!
I have *never* seen anything like this with any of my hosts, but none
of them are directly connected to the Netblazer.
So:
slow = NetBSD <--PPP--> Netblazer <--PPP--> NetBSD
norm = NetBSD <--PPP--> Netblazer <--TR-->Cisco (telnet to cisco)
norm = NetBSD <--PPP--> Netblazer
Anyway, just my experiences...
-Andrew