[H-GEN] Mail problems.......

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Michael Anthon wrote:

> Modem<->computer rate is 56k.  Doesn't seem to work reliably at 115k.  I 
> think this is a limitation of the modem as I also have problems at that 
> speed on my Cyrix 166+.  Well, just explained that one, the modem manual 
> says the terminal speed is 300-56k.  It does actually work at 115k, but not 
> very well.

In practice the 4x compression is rarely achived, so this is not a huge
problem, except for speeds above 28k
 
> Can you use a different value for MRU and MTU?  Most documentation 
> indicates you can, but I can find no way to determine what the MRU actually 
> is.  ifconfig gives the MTU only.

Could be involved with mtu path discovery perhaps.  I seem to remember
something about using the mru if it is lower than the remote mtu.  I might
be wrong here.

> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0x7) received
> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0xd) received
> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0x4d) received
> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0x5468) received
> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0x666f) received
> Sep 22 23:30:19 linux pppd[18500]: Unknown protocol (0x7) received

Do you have asyncmap 0 set for pppd?  This ensure it passes everything
through and doesn't try to esc anything.

> PS  Thanks for the help on thsi guys

We love it :-)
Cheers,
	-Robert

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