Subject: Re: slow network, serial ports, or firewall?
To: None <jonb@metronet.com>
From: Marc Boschma <marcb@bms.itg.telecom.com.au>
List: port-pc532
Date: 08/05/1996 17:24:36
I'm planning on doing the same thing you are ('532 should be up and running
this week) so I am interested in this. Do you run a cache as well ? squid ?
>OK, I suspect the gateway code (FWTK 1.3 http-gw) but thought I'd
>ask if there is something else that might be going on here. I ran
>tcpdump, and saw that the problem is that the net-server sends big
>bunches of data, the pc532 ack's the first in the stream, the server
>times out, and resends another window full, etc. I have rfc1323
>off via sysctl, the modem is on tty02, and the mac on tty03.
It might sound silly, but wouldn't it be better to put the two serial links
on different uarts ? ie. Mac on tty04 or something....
>Thanks all (again)
>Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
Look forward to hearing your experiences!
Marc B.
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