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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to improve FTP/Telnet performance Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:39:10 -0700 Organization: Andreas Klemm, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 31 Message-ID: <321BC84E.268D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4vf7pv$mto@adcmail.adc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Michael A. Dorin wrote: > > How can I improve telnet and FTP performance. Even though I am > only a few hops away from my site, the performance of my ftp and > telnet sessions is really bad. What do you call 'really bad?' what are the specific numbers? > > I have an FreeBSD box hookedup to an Assend Pipeline router via > an NE2000 card....The Pipeline is hooked to an ISDN connection, 2 > channels. > > My BSD Box has 32 Meg soon to be expanded to above 70. > > Any thoughts? Should I do anything to the kernel? > What's the current load on your system? Is the ISDN line 64K or 128K? What else is your system doing? What does top (or similar utility) say about system activity? My first jump-at-conclusions guess would be to adjust your mtu/mru size, but until I see specific data and detailed symptoms, that's just a guess. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |