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From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz)
Subject: Strange PPP Behaviour
Message-ID: <1994Jul14.031438.1913@oz.plymouth.edu>
Reply-To: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 03:14:38 GMT
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I have a problem I hope that someone can give me a hand with...

The situation:

	I just installed FreeBSD-1.1.5 on a machine I have in my office,
it does not have a supported ethernet card, so I copied the 'ppp' scripts
I use on another machine to dial up a 'ppp' connection, It works flawlessly
on the "other" machine.

	I have changed all the appropriate IP #'s etc... on the new machine.
I can establish a connection (that works) however it runs very very slow.
For example:

	I do a ping to a host on the other side, I get times about 250ms 
(not bad), but when I telnet to that same host I get extremely poor performance.
I press a key and can literally wait 7-15 seconds for the packet to get
sent/received (I watched the lights on the modem to determine when a packet
was sent/received).  The lag was in sending.

	I do not have this problem on my home machine running FreeBSD1.1-RELEASE
using the exact same scripts to make the connection.  

	Any thought/Advice would be appreciated, I just cannot seem to
find the problem.

My Hardware: (With problem)

	486dx250
	170MB drive (100MB FreeBSD)
	4MB Ram
	SupraFaxmodem (14400)

My Hardware : (w/out Problem)

	386-40 w/Math-co
	340MB drive w 75MB for dos
	8MB Ram
	SupraFaxmodem (14400)


			--> Ted


|   Ted Wisniewski    			INET:  ted@oz.plymouth.edu       |
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|   Plymouth State College                     tedw@psc.plymouth.edu     |
|   Plymouth NH, 03264                                                   |