Subject: terrible ftp performance
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bartholomew Niswonger <bniswong@midway.uchicago.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/19/1995 19:37:21
Hello, I wrote a little while back about not being able to use my
serial ports, and you all responded very nicely with good advice, but
it still didnt work. I finally gave up and bought an internal modem,
which works like a charm, so I guess it was the serial card, arrghh.
But thanks very much for the help
Anyway, I got a ppp link up, and telneted around, works great, fast
(its a 28.8) and whatnot, but FTP has major trouble. I get around
270 bytes/sec rather than the 2.7-3.5 Kb/sec I should get (as seen on
friend's box, and my amiga at times...) I was wondering if there is a
fix for this, or if I am doing something wrong. It seems the biggest
problem is that FTP waits for 5-10 seconds after each error, and I
get basically an error/Kb.
Here is what I am doing currently to get the link up:
monty# cu -l/dev/tty01 -57600
[blah blah, dial, login, start remote ppp]
~z
suspended
monty# pppd
[blah blah, stuff about local IP, remote IP, etc]
monty#
in my /etc/ppp/options file I have:
/dev/tty01
57600
modem
crtscts
defaultroute
noipdefault
and in /etc/ttys for tty01 I have:
rtscts local softcar
Does any one else get such terrible performance? Is there something I
am missing? Is there a more appropriate place to ask? I have tried
it at 38400 but saw no gain in performance.
This is all on a 386DX40 with 4 meg ram, netbsd 1.0 and a brand new
Hayes Accura 28.8 internal (2F8, irq 4)
Thanks in advance for any help!
Bart Niswonger
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Bartholomew Niswonger
bniswong@midway.uchicago.edu Voice:..........312.955.2746
CS Student...............University of Chicago
Programmer...............Biological Sciences Division/Academic Computing
Projects.................CGI/HTML & Databases
OS of choice.............NetBSD {Amiga, hp300, i386}