Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:51:20 +1000 From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: ed0 device: Gruesome performance with TCP Message-ID: <01bd6a5b$b83214e0$a51a1acb@gretchen>
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Hi. Have done some tests and found that my 2.2 stable box is giving only between 5 kb/sec and 25 kb/sec with ftp and samba. 10BaseT network, NE2000 compatable ed0 device on the isa bus. This slowness has been isolated to the BSD box. It took me 6 months to notice this - I usually just run netatalk and a apache, and I was trying to find out why samba was so slow. Netatalk can transfer files at around 0.5 Mb/sec - which is around what I'd expect. When the really slow ftp process is running, I notice the collision light on the network hub is blinking on and of about once a second - steady - even when there are only two machines up on the network. On the other hand, I the put in a PCI 10 base T NE2000 card (ed1) and configured that as the primary interface, rebooted, and voila! ftp is now around 600 kb/sec. I still need to use the ISA card as I'm running out of slots, (will be using the BSD box as a router). Any pointers as to where I should start troubleshooting? I due to all the collisions that occur I'm beginning to think it is a shonky card. Thanks in advance Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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