[pptp-server] Performance difference between TCPIP and SMB traffic

[Tife Chan]

Sorry George, i'm confusing :(
Which ppp options file should I modify? Client side or Server side?

Thanks.

Tife

-----Original Message-----
From: George Vieira [mailto:GeorgeV at citadelcomputer.com.au]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:32 PM
To: Tife Chan
Subject: RE: [pptp-server] Performance difference between TCPIP and SMB traffic


Sorry sorry. my mistake...

speed is replaced by the actualy speed...eg.


-detach
modem
115200      <----speed!!!



thanks,
George Vieira


-----Original Message-----
From: Tife Chan [mailto:tife.chan at adsociety.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:27 PM
To: George Vieira; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Performance difference between TCPIP and SMB
traffic


I tried to put a "speed" option in /etc/ppp/options,
but when the linux client connect, the pppd on server complains
"Unregonized option "speed""

Thanks,
Tife


George Vieira wrote:
> 
> what about pppd? It may have something else there..???
> I usually remove most settings in pptpd.conf and use /etc/ppp/options to
> configure what I want...
> 
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tife Chan [mailto:tife.chan at adsociety.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: George Vieira; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Performance difference between TCPIP and SMB
> traffic
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> I have already set the option "speed 115200" in pptpd.conf.
> And if I run pppstats to analyse the traffic, the IN/OUT shows that
> ftp is about 10 times faster than copying file through smb.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Tife
> 
> George Vieira wrote:
> >
> > try packet sniffing or use pppstats on linux if they are both on PPP
> > devices..
> >
> > pppstats -c 1000000 -w 1 ppp1         # Eg.
> >
> > What have you set in the options file for "speed"
> >
> > put
> >
> > speed 115200
> >
> > in your options file and/or pptpd.conf file
> >
> > thanks,
> > George Vieira
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tife Chan [mailto:tife.chan at adsociety.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:44 PM
> > To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> > Subject: [pptp-server] Performance difference between TCPIP and SMB
> > traffic
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I found that passing SMB traffic through the pptp link is much slower
than
> > TCPIP.
> > I have network A and network B and they are connected together with two
> > linux servers using pptp.
> > When ftp a file from network A to network B, the speed is fine.
> > But when I try to copy the same file from network A to network B through
> > Windows Explorer,
> > the speed is much much slower.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tife Chan
> >
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