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- From: 098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802)
- Subject: How can I speed up this SLIP implementation?
- Message-ID: <12AUG199209355659@adpdp2.lanl.gov>
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, EMVAX
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:35:00 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Does anyone out there have any experience with methods of speeding up SLIP ?
-
- I have the following configuration:
-
- Several hundred PCs are connected to a Micom data PBX switch which is connected
- to a Xyplex Terminal Server. The PCs run FTP Software's PC/TCP product. We use
- the SLIP portion of that product to talk to SLIP software on the terminal
- server. The terminal server is connected to our Ethernet backbone, to which
- the target VAX is also connected. This VAX is running Multinet, which is how I
- can justify sending this posting to this group.
-
- ---------- data PBX ---------- Ethernet --------
- | PC |-------------------| Xyplex |--------------| VAX |
- ---------- @ 9600 baud | Terminal | --------
- | Server |
- ----------
-
- The users of this system complain that their response time is too slow.
- That is, their response time from their VAX applications is 4 to 7 seconds
- slower than from a regular vt220 terminal connected by the same switch to
- a LAT terminal server.
-
- I can see from the packet statistics on the PC side that I am getting some
- retransmits and duplicate packets on the PC. These are about 10% of the total
- traffic. I assume that most retransmits are being caused by the not receiving
- the acknowledgment in the PC's alotted time, and that duplicates are caused by
- the VAX not receiving the acknowledgement in a timely manner.
-
- My questions are the following:
-
- Is there any way to extend the time period which Multinet waits before it
- does a retransmit?
-
- What would be the effect of replacing the 9600 line with a 19.2 line. I know
- you couldn't expect it to be twice as fast, but could you expect it to be
- 1.75 times as fast?
-