From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 8:36:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A015837B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 08:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elit@home.com) Received: from funhouse ([65.15.105.184]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010522153606.VELJ578.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@funhouse>; Tue, 22 May 2001 08:36:06 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c0e2d5$4562ace0$b8690f41@funhouse> From: "KB" To: "Peter" , References: Subject: Re: What are good NIC's for FreeBSD. Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:38:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Peter, I like the 3com "Cyclone" cards 100baseTX. That's just me however. Regards.. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: What are good NIC's for FreeBSD. > Hello, > As no-one can help me with my NIC cards, I've decided that the dc0 > driver is fscked up. [My computer froze three times last night playing mp3's > remotely thru smbfs, or just transfering files sometimes, not sure of NIC or what > after freezing three times went full night looping the same MP3 while I slept -- > [speakers were off] -- It's weird I can't figure out what is going on]. > > Question: > Does anyone use FreeBSD as a server for Windows workstations: > [Using Samba] > Server== Holds files / mp3's / misc. data -->> MP3's can be played on Windows > remotely from the server without skipping [this is my benchmark I use to test > my network]. How exactly is it setup? Did you need to do anything special? > How are your transfer rates? Anything special setup in Windows? > > What network cards have you found to be good, fairly cheap > and work great? [Get close to 100mbit transfer rates [both ways], not 56k speeds] > > I'm looking for something that isn't going to cost me a lot, and something > that isn't a Linksys. [again see below]. I'm also going to buy a switch, so > for a home network of about 3 computer total, what is a good combo > of NIC's and switch so that I will have good transfer rates both ways. > > > ***************below****************** > > The LNE100TX saga continues: > > I've lately had problems playing mp3's that are located on my > FreeBSD on my Windows box, via Samba/Netbios [mp3's skip, > while Windows to Windows they play fine] -- So I tried > something else, I played an MP3 from my Windows machine on > the FreeBSD box, it plays fine. > > So I did a Samba file transfer from Windows to FreeBSD, I got > a file transfer of around 800kb/sec [is this kilobits or kilobytes > ?] > Trying to then shove the same exact file back to the windows > machine it took about 5 minutes to transfer 2.5MB. hmmm... So > again I grabbed the file from Windows to my FreeBSD box, same > transfer rate [800 kb/sec]. When going FreeBSD to my Win 95 > box the transfer rate is the speed of a 56k modem. > > Anyone have any idea of what can be causing this? > Also I've noticed if I boot my Windows box to FreeBSD, > transfer speeds dont' Improve going from FreeeBSD to second > FreeBSD box, but from Second to First FBSD box it's good rate. > > Another thing, if I do ifconfig dc0 down [or 10baseT/UTP], > and then ifconfig dc0 media 100baseTX up, > then do a file/ftp transfer, speeds are great for about > 100MB, then die down as the transfer continues. Seems to be > happening only going one way. > > LNE100TX cards, Linksys HUB, transfers work great in Windows > Anything you guys can think of that could be causing this? > This was all tested running @ 100baseTX on windows and > freebsd. Initally done with a 30MB file, once that worked > re-tested with a 500MB file, Win to FreeBSD [FreeBSD > initiating the transfer all times via smbclient]...... > FreeBSD 4.3-Stable. > > Took me about 15 seconds to grab the 30MB .wav file from > Windows, took about 5 minutes to send 2.5MB to Windows -- > using same file. > > I'm running out of ideas, it can't be the cards/hub, as transfers > work great win to win on the same exact machines [I went and > even installed FreeBSD on one of them just in case it was some > issue with FreeBSD and Windows, -- FBSD to FBSD still same > problem.] > > What settings can I check? What can it be? > Can it be the bios? [even though it works in Windows fine] > Do I need to buy new NIC's ? > New computers? [both are 233MMX, the Win box is a no-name > mobo - I think it's crap thats why it has Win 95 on it :) ] > > > This whole problem is driving me nuts as I know > I'm probably doing something wrong, I'm about to go > out and buy new pc's just to fix this as it's pissing me off :). > > > > > www.nul.cjb.net > www.FreeBSD.org > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message