Re: Modem Retrains
Aaron Endly (acev@mindless.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 03:30:21 -0400
now that we figured out how to fix it in unix, how do we keep it from
retraining in win95 all the time????
>
>Tom Samplonius wrote:
>> No, 0 means none, and ffffffff escape the first 64 characters.. This
>>makes perfect sense. The problems you experienced before were due to the
>>massive amount of escaping that would have to be done by the PPP layer.
>>Assuming a random distribution of characters, 25% of all characters would
>>be escaped, resulting in 25% more traffic.
>
>Absolutely, this is quite clear from the pppd man page (and presumably
>somewhere in the Livingston docs too) - except, of course, that it's 32
>characters and 12.5%:-) And while I never had any problems with no
>'asyncmap' setting in pppd (thus getting ffffffff, i.e. all 32
>characters masked), I *have* verified that putting in the 'asyncmap 0'
>gave me ~ 10% increased throughput when downloading compressed data.
>
>--Per Hedeland
>per@erix.ericsson.se
>
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