Hi, On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dan Hardiker wrote: > Ive now hit a barrier I just cant cross without help. Theres nothing out on > the net and every where I go they point to this newsgroup / mailing list. > Here it goes... > > I have setup MPD to be best of my ability and am getting intermitant packet > loss (only with mpd, pinging through when not connected to the vpn works > beautifully).I think the root of the problem lies in a non reported issue. > > When I connect to the VPN I get a connection status box in my XP sys tray. > If I open that up I get a list of bytes sent and received, as well as the > compression % and number of errors. Compression is always 0% even through I > tell mpd to use compression and have checked its enabled in the VPN > connection settings. MPD (netgraph) doesen't support compression, because it's proprietary and patentet, if you realy wan't to have compression (=STAC Compression) then you have to buy the sources from www.hifn.com, but usualy you don't need compression.
> > If I sit the machine pinging the LAN IP of the MPD server when connected to > the VPN, I start racking up lots of errors. Ive only been pinging for 15 > mins and the errors is up to 58. Unfortunatly it doesnt tell me WHAT those > errors are, or where to start looking to resolve them. > > The short of it is that the VPN works, but its paralysingly slow (throughput > has been logged via trafshow as being 300 bytes > 3k a sec on a 256kbit ADSL > upstream ... averaging mostly around 300-400 bps) and could really do with > some pointers as to where to start looking. > can you please post you configuration and mpd's logfile? bye, -- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - http://www.bretterklieber.com A-Quadrat Automation GmbH - http://www.a-quadrat.at Tel: ++43-(0)3172-41679 - GSM: ++43-(0)699 12861847 ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
