Rejean Turgeon
AllSpeeds Net
allspeed@allspeeds.net
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 1998, allspeed wrote:
>
> > maybe i'm wrong but can it be a problem in 2.1.9? kernels?
>
> Actually it's a fix :)
>
> > since i've upgrade to 2.1.97 and 2.1.98 this morning when a file transfer
> > starts on my system it's like it stalled everything else that uses the
> > pppd i had pppd 2.3.3 i upgraded to 2.3.4 this morning still the same
> > thing maybe something i mistset but maybe someone else got the same thing
> > after upgrading!
>
> The newer kernels perform faster TCP, so you can
> ftp/http with more bandwidth. Unfortunately this
> can degrade interactive performance when the
> remote end doesn't do packet queueing (see CBQ
> scheduler & Configure.help for more info).
> TCP isn't guaranteed to be fair, and with the new
> faster ACKing code interactive performance is more
> heavily dependant on the remote end...
>
> Rik.
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