> 1. Why does pppd (I'm using 2.3.5) allow one socket to hog the entire ppp
> route? I would rather download at half the speed and be able to make
> basic telnet connections than to download at this speed and be unable to
> do anything else.
It has nothing to do with PPP. It's TCP/IP. TCP/IP is (by default) a
FIFO protocol--first in, first out. On the other end of your PPP
connection is a buffer that stores packets waiting to be sent to you.
When you telnet or do a DNS query, or whatever, it is put at the END of
that buffer. Only after everything that was in the buffer first is sent
do you recieve the reply to your DNS query.
> 2. I was only downloading at 2 kb/s on a 56k modem. 2kb/s shouldn't be
> enough to kill every other socket, especially since I've done things like
> this before, without any problem.
> Is this a previously seen bug? Thanks very much. :)
It's not a bug--it's a feature of TCP/IP that has been in place since the
foundation of ARPAnet.
There are some bleeding-edge features in the Linux 2.2.x kernels which
allow you to help controll which packets get highest priority, to help
speed up telnet, etc... This will only be helpful for outgoing packets,
tho, unless you controll the remote end of the PPP connection, too, and
it's running Linux. So... this really won't help you much at all in your
situation.
As for why you're only getting 2k/sec on a 56k line... Maybe you weren't
connected at 56k. 56k over analog phone lines is a myth.
V.90: "A new standard in standards - one that will only work for
an ever-changing sub-set of users"
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Jonathan Hall * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP public key available
Systems Admin, Future Internet Services; Goessel, KS * (316) 367-2487
http://www.futureks.net * PGP Key ID: FE 00 FD 51
-= Running Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, kernel 2.0.36 =-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
