Thanks for all the replies.

I tried using sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 but it came back saying
no variables defined for such and such.  I suppose this is due to me
runnign out of the box 1.0

For those of you asking for more hardware specs, the Hayes Accura is
internal, and is recognized as a 16550a at 2F8.  I have not seen a
single silo overflow yet, which is why I was accusing FTP rather than
the hardware.  From watching pppstats go by I see something like the
following (sorry cant quote exactly)

bytes 	errors
17k 	3
5k	1
2k	1
0	0
1k	1
0	0
1k	1

etc...

At the same time I am able to have a fairly decent telnet session
going without stop.  To me this means the ppp link is clean, and able
to deliver, but the ftp process gets overwhelmed by errors and takes a
long time to recover.

The telnet sessions are definately close to 28.8, with no errors in
the characters which show up, although they do slowly accumulate
errors according to pppstats

Perhaps it is just time to update to 1.1Alpha?
I would be much happier to do this with the modem link going, as the
only other option is via floppy...

Any ideas would be great, thanks very much

bart

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