Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes (Resolved)

2005-06-18 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
I guess this is one of those things that keeps "biting" into you until you get it resolved. After some experimentation, while I never thought this would have such an effect--especially with net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 and net.inet.tcp.sack=1 by default--the following simple additions to /etc/sysctl.con

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-17 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
I think I'm going to leave this as an unresolved case--shame though. I also performed the following: * Replaced my ActionTec gt701 modem with a Cisco 678 (was going to do this anyway) and the same issue--Windows is fast, OpenBSD is not * Replaced xl with fxp and the same issue--however, OpenBSD c

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Villavicencio
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: Kevin wrote: On 6/7/05, Can Erkin Acar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: Prior to migrating to DSL, this same card was used for a cable connection and doing more than 1.5Mb/s. This really does not mean much. It could be a negotiation problem.

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Kevin wrote: > On 6/7/05, Can Erkin Acar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: > > > Prior to migrating to DSL, this same card was used for a cable > > > connection and doing more than 1.5Mb/s. > > > > This really does not mean much. It could be a negotiation problem. > > Was y

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:50:40 -0500, Kevin wrote: > > On 5/26/05, Rod.. Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you have a modem that will do all the connection stuff I am > > > amazed that anyone feels the need to do PPPoE. > > > > I prefer to have control over (and

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:50:40 -0500, Kevin wrote: >On 5/26/05, Rod.. Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When you have a modem that will do all the connection stuff I am amazed >> that anyone feels the need to do PPPoE. > >I prefer to have control over (and visibility into) the PPP connection an

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Kevin
On 5/26/05, Rod.. Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you have a modem that will do all the connection stuff I am amazed > that anyone feels the need to do PPPoE. I prefer to have control over (and visibility into) the PPP connection and NAT, to this end I'm seriously considering getting r

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Can Erkin Acar
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: > > Note that, if debugging is turned on, it would not go above 1.5Mb/s, > > due to excessive amount of logging, make sure that you do not somehow > > turn debug on by default. > > It is definitely not on by default. ok, just wanted to make sure. > > Another thing to

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
the idle loop problem? > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Melameth, Daniel D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 > > > June 2005 02:10 PM To: OpenBSD Misc > > > Subject: Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes > > > > > > I'

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
pm0 on boot. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong0 that apm0 is the source of the idle loop problem? -Original Message- From: Melameth, Daniel D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2005 02:10 PM To: OpenBSD Misc Subject: Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes I've been hesi

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
To: OpenBSD Misc > Subject: Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes > > > I've been hesitant to touch -current especially after a > hackathon. Any > idea if the idle loop fix is in the i386 6/3 snapshot? > > Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Actually I looked at the dme

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
I've been hesitant to touch -current especially after a hackathon. Any idea if the idle loop fix is in the i386 6/3 snapshot? Marco Peereboom wrote: > Actually I looked at the dmesg and I am almost certain that this > machine has the idle loop issue. Try -current or wait until brad@ > commits th

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-07 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Can Erkin Acar wrote: > Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: > > I've looked into this further and still cannot determine where the > > issue lies. Based on some advice, I unplugged the OpenBSD machine > > and setup a Windows XP machine instead. The Windows native PPPoE > > client was able to download at 5

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
Actually I looked at the dmesg and I am almost certain that this machine has the idle loop issue. Try -current or wait until brad@ commits the errata. On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:23 PM, Can Erkin Acar wrote: Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: I've looked into this further and still cannot determine wh

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-06 Thread Can Erkin Acar
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: > I've looked into this further and still cannot determine where the issue > lies. Based on some advice, I unplugged the OpenBSD machine and setup a > Windows XP machine instead. The Windows native PPPoE client was able to > download at 5.5Mb/s and the OpenBSD machine

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
Without researching this too much; have you guys tried -current which contains the idle loop fix? On Jun 6, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: I've looked into this further and still cannot determine where the issue lies. Based on some advice, I unplugged the OpenBSD machine and

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-06 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
I've looked into this further and still cannot determine where the issue lies. Based on some advice, I unplugged the OpenBSD machine and setup a Windows XP machine instead. The Windows native PPPoE client was able to download at 5.5Mb/s and the OpenBSD machine was still stuck at 1.5Mb/s. A snipp

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-31 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 5/27/05, Melameth, Daniel D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For what it's worth, I have been doing this for over a year with my > > OpenBSD box. Turning on or off the "priqing of ACKs" here has no > > affect on the performance decease apparently associated with using > >

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-28 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 5/27/05, Melameth, Daniel D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth, I have been doing this for over a year with my > OpenBSD box. Turning on or off the "priqing of ACKs" here has no affect > on the performance decease apparently associated with using the OpenBSD > box. > > ...so I'm

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Rogier Krieger wrote: > On 5/26/05, Melameth, Daniel D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adam Gleave wrote: > > > One possibility is that your modem prioritized ACK's... > > > > Thanks, but this is not the case. When having the modem handle both > > the routing and PPPoE, and disconnecting the OpenB

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 5/26/05, Melameth, Daniel D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Gleave wrote: > > One possibility is that your modem prioritized ACK's... > > Thanks, but this is not the case. When having the modem handle both the > routing and PPPoE, and disconnecting the OpenBSD box, the connection > works at

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Adam Gleave wrote: > One possibility is that your modem prioritized ACK's... > > See http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html Thanks, but this is not the case. When having the modem handle both the routing and PPPoE, and disconnecting the OpenBSD box, the connection works at it should.

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Gleave
One possibility is that your modem prioritized ACK's... See http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Thu, 26 May 2005 03:23:39 -0400, Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: >Just moved from cable to DSL connectivity at home and decided to give >3.7's new kernelized pppoe as shot. > >My DSL connection trains at 7Mb/s down and 896Kb/s up and testing with >Internet speed tests, I generally get 5.5Mb/s down a

PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-05-26 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Just moved from cable to DSL connectivity at home and decided to give 3.7's new kernelized pppoe as shot. My DSL connection trains at 7Mb/s down and 896Kb/s up and testing with Internet speed tests, I generally get 5.5Mb/s down and 715Kb/s up. These tests were done with the DSL router provided by