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From: Cam Johnson <cam@solidsys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP performance with pppd
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 11:19:20 +0000
Organization: SS NetCon
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S Marquard wrote:
> 
> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
> 
> >Cam Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm experiencing poor ftp transfer rates when using pppd.  Approx 600
> >> byes per sec
> >> via pppd and 2800 bytes per sec when using ijppp.  This is true for both
> >> 2.1.5R and current.  Has anyone else seen this as my search of the
> >> archives
> >> has yielded nothing.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> 
> >Too many possibilities to be sure without further data, but...
> 
> >Try adjusting your mtu size. As long as I'm on a dialup line, I set mtu
> >to 576. When/if I go to ISDN I'll up that.
> 
> I have got throughput of about 2700bps using pppd, vs 3100bps using ijppp
> (with 28.8 modems). Adjusting the mtu/mru values hasn't helped.
> I'd also like to know what the difference is.
> 
> Stephen Marquard
> scm@silver.wcape.school.za
> smarq@ucthpx.uct.ac.za
Lokks as though I have at least partially solved my performance problem
by
turning off vj compression i.e. in the /etc/ppp/options adding -vj.
Performace is still not up to that of ijppp, and I know that there have
been some bugs in the pppd vj implementation in the past.
-- 
Cam Johnson
SS NetCon, 5610 Guhn Rd., Houston, TX 77040 713-895-0500 or
SS Netcon, 3010 Possum Trot, Brenham, TX 77833 409-277-9507
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email cam@solidsys.com