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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:19:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kapil Chowksey <kchowksey@hss.hns.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NE2100 ethernet card (lnc1) giving poor performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971114121927.4016L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711150308.WAA00706@tarang.hss.hns.com>

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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Kapil Chowksey wrote:

> A NE2100 ethernet card--lnc1 device (on an HP Vectra Pentium class CPU
> running FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE) is giving very poor performance (about
> 4 Kbps ftp transfers). This is happening only in post-install
> operation -- single user as well as multi-user mode.
> 
> During installation (which was done in ftp mode using an ftp server
> on local ethernet), the performance was normal (about 400 Kbps ftp
> transfers).
> 
> A tcpdump shows that FTP transfers a chunk of data, waits for 
> *two seconds*, then transfers a chunk ... and so on.

Hm... check your routing table (netstat -rn) and try diabling tcp
extensions in /etc/rc.conf.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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