I am getting really poor performance out of my network, especially when talking to older networks or when performing short file transfers. Whats the problem?
Try turning off rfc1323 support: sysctl w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 only in newer builds. In older versions you have to edit a kernel config file. RFC1323 is not yet supported by all networks, and can cause TCP performance degradation when tried. This, for example, is a known problem on older Sun and VAX hosted networks, and on many networks which are using Linux as an intermediate host. 6.4.7 : Is there any PC software that will allow me to use my enormous PC with all of the unsupported hardware as a PC-NFS server? Yes. It is called SOSS, and is available from MANY FTP sources. You will need the aforementioned Clarkson Packet Drivers for it to work, but that shouldn’t cause too many problems for most people. 6.5 : How can I use mtools with the ‘new’ floppy naming convention? With the adoption of BSD 4.4, there is a new way of accessing the floppy disk drive types. The method uses the minor device number to specify different media sizes and densities. These densities are established by a
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