Subject: Re: i386 ppp performance
To: Carl Shapiro <samsara@panix.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/1998 18:38:08
Carl Shapiro writes:
> For whatever reason, when using NetBSD 1.3, my Pentium Pro seems to
> perform quite abysmally when using ppp over the serial port.  Very
> often things just slow down, stop, resume, get even slower, stop,
> etc..  I don't think this is all related to the speed of the remote
> server as Windows 95 doesn't seem to exhibit this behavior on similar
> hardware using the same ISP at the same time to the same remote
> server.

Do you have your sysctl var. net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 = 1?

I dunno if this is your problem, but it has caused problems like this
for some in the past.

Perry