From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 08:50:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551CD16A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:50:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.computerking.ca (computerking.ca [209.115.173.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A1F43D31 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:50:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maillist@computerking.ca) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (v22001.computerking.ca [192.168.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail1.computerking.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A5E2D9; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:50:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <414953EA.5000707@computerking.ca> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 02:50:50 -0600 From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Aitken References: <414933EF.2050404@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <414933EF.2050404@dreamchaser.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: packet pass through vs ftp -- performance weirdity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:50:22 -0000 Happened to me once needed to set the the speed of the nic card in rc.conf can not remember how to do it but it is in the man rc.conf page and solved my similar problem. Looks something like this if i can recall ifconfig_xl0="inet 209.155.173.22 something about manually setting the speed and mode of the card " for me it had to do with the card not negotiating it parameters properly and i had to beat it into submission with manual overrides. glanced through the rc.conf man page but it is to long for me deal with right now the setting are in there somewhere. Gary Aitken wrote: > I'm seeing some weird network performance I don't understand. > > If I sit at an NT box and using a web browser, go through my fbsd 4.10 > firewall to someplace out in the world through a slow dsl connection, > I get download speeds of 20KB - 45KB/sec, pretty much the max my DSL > connection can deliver. > > The nt box is connected to the fbsd box over a 10Mb/sec full duplex > crossover cable for test purposes. > > If I ftp (shell window) or use a browser to ftp from the fbsd box > itself, I see a max speed of something like 8KB/sec. > > This makes absolutely no sense to me, given the relative speeds of the > network connections, which I would have thought was the limiting > factor. > > The fbsd box is a p200, 128M, single 7200rpm 9.4ms seagate ultra scsi > drive, 10MB/sec negotiated xfr rate. Data used for testing was ~8MB > file in /var partition, don't know how badly fragmented. > > Is passing packets through the firewall and ipfw rules that much > faster than an ftp access? > > Ideas for where to look for what's slowing things down? > > Thanks, > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"