At 08:47 08.06.98 -0400, Dave! wrote:
>
>I have a Pentium here at home set to do IP Masq. It has 16M RAM, a
>56KFlexmodem (with Flex capability at my ISP) and is running Caldera
>OpenLinux with kernel 2.0.33. At any given time there are at most four
>computers on it (all using http services). The problem? Download rates
>never go any faster than 1K/sec. If there are four people on using
>Netscape, we all get (approx.) 1K/sec. If there is one person on, he gets
>(approx.) 1K/sec. When I connect through the modem in my PC to my ISP
>(NOT using IP Masq; I am the only one on) I get a transfer rate of about
>2.5K/sec through my 33.6 modem. Clearly, there is something up with the
>Linuxbox and/or the IP Masquerading. Any ideas?
There are a some points to check:
1st When running ifconfig you can see if there are errors ?
2nd Does your Serial port handel speeds high enough ?
3rd Check also at what speed you are connected.
4th Check parameters to pppd.
>
>I've read a lot about MTU/MRU problems (which supposedly are fixed in
>kernel 2.0.33). I know that to check my ISPs values I need to call them.
>How (or where) in Linux do I check my values?
This you can check with ifconfig.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
>dg
I hope this is of some help for you!
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