From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 18:08:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA25443 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:08:55 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA25436 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:08:52 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id SAA04642; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:08:31 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA02998; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 18:08:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199504040108.SAA02998@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Poor Router performance In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 95 09:45:00 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 18:08:25 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm trying to use FreeBSD 2.0 as a router between a Novell network >and a set of Sun systems. We've been using a DOS-based 286 with KA9Q in >the past, but want to switch over. The FreeBSD system is a 25MHz 386, and >seems to work fine, but FTP performance is very slow - about 3Kb per second. >FTPing to either side of the router gets me 80Kb and 30Kb rates, respectively. >The system has a blistering 5M of memory and is using a pair of DLink >NE2000-type 16-bit boards (DE-220). I built the kernel with the following: > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x320 net irq 11 vector edintr > device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector edintr > >Can anyone think of why the performance is poor? At one point I ran it >with a floppy-disk based version of FreeBSD-1.4 using a DLink and a SMC >Elite 16 board and I think the performance was better (but don't quote me >on that!). And running KA9Q on this system shows good performance. The router should be capable of 600K+/sec. I'm interested in finding out why the performance is so low. Give me a call sometime and I'll help diagnose the problem. 666-4431. -DG