Re: PPP Send and Receive Rates

[Allan Nelson <anelson jump net>]

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, W Scott Murray wrote:
>I'm having a problem with my ppp connection to the internet and I have a
>couple of questions. First, is there any way to determine the current
>modem rate? And is there anyway to find out the actual effective transfer
>rate? I've looked at netstat and pppstats, but these don't seem to give
>what I want.
>
>The problem I'm having is it takes much longer than it should to transfer
>graphics from my web site. A small image ( <10K) might take over a minute
>to transfer. I'm trying to track down where the problem might be and my
>first theory is the problem is in the ppp connection. I have no trouble
>receiving data over ppp, though.
>
>Any insight would be appreciated.

You can set debug levels with the pppd command line.  The debug info is written
to /var/log/messages and will contain the modem connect string.
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Allan L. Nelson			
UNIX System Administrator
Oracle DBA