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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14480 comp.protocols.ppp:6770 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!bushwire.apana.org.au!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: ppp under FreeBSD -- ROCKS Date: 14 Nov 1994 22:01:20 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <RICK.94Nov14170120@vox.trystero.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com Since I've managed to get ppp-2.1.2 compiled under FreeBSD 1.1, I've been getting excellent ping times. Avg. of 133ms after 200 ping samples. (USR Sportster V.FC running 115,200 DTE). For a 'real-world' application I get appx. 270ms pings playing netrek with the server at cassius.cs.uiuc.edu, where under the stock version of ppp for FreeBSD 1.1 I was getting 340. Under cslip I was also getting ~270ms. With all the suggestions that I've been reading on both of these newsgroups, I got the performance to right around where cslip was running, without the sharp performance spikes that seemed to crop up often under cslip (inexplicable lag, etc.). PPP seems to smooth out the 'choppy' waves of cslip into nice smooth relaxing bits of lagless bliss. Now I can login to the machine from machines at other sites and get decent response. I can play netrek fairly smoothly. In general, ppp just rules.