In article <35b2e94b.4282971@mail.danbbs.dk> dinsen@danbbs.dk writes:
>On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:35:53 -0400, you wrote:
>>On Jul 14,  3:03pm, dinsen@danbbs.dk (Anders Dinsen) wrote:
>>-- Subject: Re: PPP persistent and demand dialled connection
>
>Ok, it works now, but I'm not completely satisfied. First of all,
>performance is quite low. My NetBSD box is a 486DLC-40 based system,
>so I suspected that compression algorithms have negative impact on
>performance. So I included
>
>nodeflate
>nobsdcomp
>asyncmap a0000 ; to make sure only XON/XOFF are escaped...
>
>in the /etc/ppp/peers/<my-isp-call-file>
>
>And it helped a bit, but I still get performance below 1K/second with
>my 19200 modem (which will be switched with an ISDN connection when
>I'm satisfied with demand-ppp on NetBSD). On my Win95 pc I get
>performance around 1.5K/sec.
>
>Another thing is that someone opens the connection every 15 minutes or
>so. I assume it's my Windows pc that looks for a WINS server on the
>internet... I can of course block this protocol (which is some UDP
>port) on the ppp interface, but does anyone have some good filters for
>a setup like mine? Also for the active-filter, that pppd supports?
>

unset net.inet.tcp.timestamps and turn compression back on.
also if you use hardware flow control, you don't need to escape xon/xoff.

christos