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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD Date: 30 Nov 1995 08:38:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <49jqhr$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net> <48aeb8$mmj@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> <48ilpg$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <48oj00$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <48u4t8$qvr@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <492rq6$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> <49f90v$3bi@buffnet2.buffnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes: > This sort of thing is why I wonder if there is some sort of tcp or udp > time out/retry issue that might be relieved if it were loosened up alittle. > I just dont know enough of the low level issues to really play with it. UDP does no retries of its own. Yes, TCP backoff seems to be a problem if your network lines are lousy (my lines to the US lose about 50 % of their packets). Either you're suffering from some poorly-supported ethernet card, or you've got problems with FreeBSD's T/TCP (transaction TCP). But for the latter, i've only heard reports about total failure on some term servers, but not of poor performance. (You can turn this feature off, see /etc/sysconfig.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)