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by **Stephen R. Savitz** » Mon, 23 Jan 1995 00:40:43

I tried diald 0.6 with SLIP, rather than PPP, on kernel 1.1.59. It connects
OK, but whenever I try to transfer a file it goes slower and slower and slower
until eventually it just stops. Happens for both ftp and http. With a long
enough file, eventually it's silent for 5 minutes and my provider drops the
connection. This doesn't happen with dip.

Should I try PPP instead, or is it maybe a kernel problem?
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by **Eric Sche** » Mon, 23 Jan 1995 05:17:16

Quote:>I tried diald 0.6 with SLIP, rather than PPP, on kernel 1.1.59. It connects
>OK, but whenever I try to transfer a file it goes slower and slower and slower
>until eventually it just stops. Happens for both ftp and http. With a long
>enough file, eventually it's silent for 5 minutes and my provider drops the
>connection. This doesn't happen with dip.
>Should I try PPP instead, or is it maybe a kernel problem?

I haven't had a previous report of this kind of problem, nor have
I seen it, but I don't use SLIP except for testing purposes. If you
have PPP service available I would switch to that for now.
In the mean time I will try to duplicate this problem myself.
Can you tell me what MTU settings and other configuration options
you are using?

If anyone else has seen this problem please report it to me with
as much detail about your setup as possible.

-- eric

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Diald + SLIP slows down to a crawl

Diald + SLIP slows down to a crawl

Diald + SLIP slows down to a crawl