Subject: Re: Slow connection between NetBSD and Sun Solaris
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/07/1998 10:38:47
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:36:10 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote:

 > uklaus@hgb-leipzig.de (Uwe Klaus) writes:
 > >I have trouble to get a good connection between a NetBSD and a Sun Solaris
 > >box located on different sites of an ISDN line (128 Kbps). The
 > >connection is very very slow. Every interaction (telnet, rlogin, www) take 
 > >several seconds for getting responce.
 > 
 > I guess a tcpdump (or two from both ends) wouldn't hurt.

Can you also try changing the sysctl variable:

	net.inet.tcp.mss_ifmtu

to 1?

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