On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jorge Matias wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
>
> > Hi Jorge.
> >
> > >>> Why does the modem takes so long to transmit when I make a Ping,
> > >>> Telnet, Ftp, etc? It doesn`t tramsmit right after issuing the
> > >>> command.
> >
> > > Possably your system is trying to do a DNS lookup to resolve the
> > > hostname of the target address, is there any difference in speed
> > > by doing ping 44.xx.xx.xx in stead of ping ct1abc ??
> >
> > > I don't have problems with DNS lookups because I have the
> > > machines in my /etc/hosts.
> >
> > That doesn't automatically follow - I had precicely that problem with
> > one of my systems a while back, where I had an entry in /etc/hosts but
> > still couldn't telnet to the host.
>
> But the problem is not there. I do a PING with an IP address and still
> big delays to transmit. I do PING with 5 secs interval. It never sends the
> Ping every 5 secs. Sometimes it only transmits a block of 3 frames after
> 15-20secs.
That would seem to be a channel access problem. Maybe DCD stays on for
some reason? What about persistence and slottime? Too small persistence
value or too long slottime could cause that. I don't know how you set
those on an YAM modem however... :(
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