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From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Subject: Re: network not performing - where to start?
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On Monday 18 February 2008 10:23:58 Boldra wrote:

> ed1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         ether 00:a0:0c:40:32:a3
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active

It takes two to tango: is the other nic running 100Mbit?

> So my questions are:
> How do I check the network performance from within freebsd?

Excellent tool:
http://www.freshports.org/net/bmon/

-- 
Mel