From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 4:26:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dns0.sports.gov.uk (dns0.sports.gov.uk [195.89.151.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F5614DA2 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 04:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk) Message-ID: <378F16A6.C2541AD0@fionn.sports.gov.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:25:26 +0100 From: Andy Doran X-Accept-Language: en-GB,en,en-* MIME-Version: 1.0 To: crypt0genic Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: <19990716120748.A629@ecad.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does 'netstat -in' say? - ad crypt0genic wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have two freeBSD machines one 3.1 -STABLE and the other 3.2 -STABLE, I was ftp > ing a very large file from one machine to abother over are lan, it began to get > extremely slow and began to stall. I suspected two much traffic on our hub (A N > etgear 24port 10base-T) so i switched the two machines onto a 8 port Compaq Nett > elligent hub. Now there are only these two machines on the hub and they are stil > l stalling. I tried ftping both ways but it was the same thing. > > By looking at the lights on the hob it seems that a burst of data would come for > 2 seconds and then it would be dead for 10. I have 3com 3c905b FastEthernet car > ds in both machines, and up until now I have never had these kind of problems. > > Any Ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message