On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Rob wrote:
> At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: > >[snip] > >My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 > >[snip] > >It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small > >files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new > >terminal to kill the process. > > It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL > link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better > performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, > but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: > > #ifconfig <network_interface> mtu 1438 > > and see if that makes a difference. > > There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, > and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more. > > While i have never heard of someone doing that on plain ethernet LAN, I have seen a bad cable do exactly what he is complaining about. The download starts off fast, the quickly trickles to nothing. One of the wires simply does not have solid contact. m > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
