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From: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD
Date: 22 Nov 1995 03:20:08 GMT
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In article <48oj00$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) says:
>
>shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes:
>>   I get tons of frame errors with 
>> freebsd + WWW using trumpet winsock as the dos/netscape client on large 
>> pages that I dont get with linux.  However, I need the ip aliasing of 
>> freebsd which is why i went with it.
>
>Did you ever consider that you might be about the only one who gets
>them?
>
>I assume you're using PPP (you didn't write it), so which version do
>you use on FreeBSD?  Did you enable hardware flow control (on both
>sides, FreeBSD and the modem)?  This rather smells like flow-control
>problems.


Im sorry - when Ive done FTP that pooped out it was an ethernet 
connection.  The trumpet users here connect to an annex 4000 for PPP.
Flow control is hardware.

I have one linux box with cern http which serves a web client who
has pages with large pictures of chinchillas.

I have one 2.0.5 BSD for other purpose cern httpd use.

The linux pages dont poop out, the bsd ones do. And it resembles the same
type of sudden stoppage that FTP does.

Im not knocking BSD - and I even wondered if its a situation of too 
tight a set of time outs or something like that (Im NOT that up on
the low levels of tcp/ip to know what the problem could be really).
I would think it was me only my sco's and my linux dont do it.