[ale] MTU/MRU

[nomad]

David Chow wrote:
> 
> do you have asyncmap 0?
> if you have an 8 bit connection, this will speedin things up significantly
> because asyncmap tells pppd not to escape any characters.
> 
> I'm having a different problem(with 2.1).  Our connection stays stable for
> days and then suddlenly it can't keep it up for more than a minute.
> Sometimes when I fork a pinging process, pinging the other side, it
> says up for long periods of time.
> 
> Anyone have this experience?
> 
> dave
> 
> nomad wrote:
> > Does anyone knoe the ideal MTU/MRU to use with pppd and linux?  I was
> > using 1500 and 1000.  Neither really helped, and I'm looking to speed up
> > my connection as much as possible.
> >

  If you're dial-in script can be back-grounded, put a loop that
executes "ping -c 5 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" .  This will send 5 ping packets
and possibly fix your problem.

Rob

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Robert L. Harris
FSN Administrator -- Time Warner Cable, Orlando Fla.

Email:
Robert.Harris at twcable.com
Nomad at netwide.net
	
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