Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:19:51 +0200 From: Nicolas Galler <ngaller@student.info.ucl.ac.be> To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" <gummibear@nettaxi.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Horrilble FTP Peformance Whend Downloading from FBSD - Help Needed Message-ID: <39D450A7.85506981@student.info.ucl.ac.be> References: <200009281908.MAA32446@mail5.bigmailbox.com>
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"gummibear@nettaxi.com" wrote: > > I'm a bit at a loss here. I can't seem to figure out why I'm transfering at only 5kps on a 100Mbs switched network. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1R with the standard ftpd. The FreeBSD box has a tl0 interface plugged into a 3Com 3300 switch. There about 96 users on this network. On my end I have WinNT with a Intel Pro/100 network card. I hope this hardware/software information will help. > > Everything else seems pretty snappy (telnet, dns, etc), but my 96 MB download from my FreeBSD box is crawling. I can't seem to find anything wrong, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. I tried playing with netstat but since I'm not too familiar with it I wasn't sure what I was looking at. > > Can someone help me out with some tips on where to find this lousy ftp performance issue? > > Thanks! > > Joey > Joey, did you try setting the media type (by using the 'media 100baseTX' option in the ifconfig line for your card)? Auto-detection sometimes can cause horrible performance in FreeBSD for some cards. Nico To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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