From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 18:56:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03477 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skb@asgard.slcc.edu) Received: from [166.70.7.95] (helo=lightning.local) by mail.xmission.com with smtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zMN7U-00024F-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:56:28 -0600 Message-ID: <360AF8FE.5867@asgard.slcc.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:59:26 -0600 From: Scott Brown Reply-To: skb@asgard.slcc.edu Organization: Salt Lake Community College X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having a lot of trouble with my FreeBSD box's network performance. It's connected to a pair of Win95 boxes by way of 10base2 Ethernet. The main symptom is that data coming out of the box dribbles along at pathetically low speeds (500kbps or less). Incoming data goes at a respectable pace (5Mbps) without apparent overruns or dropped data. I've checked the rest of the network and the Win95 machines for problems, and thus isolated the trouble to the FreeBSD system. The BSD box started out with a 3C509 card. Then I tried an old DE100 card, which didn't help. Then I installed a DE205, which is worse than nothing because it simply stops working completely within about 30 seconds of being brought up. There's no excess hardware, and no IRQ or I/O port conflicts with any of the cards I've tried. Any suggestions on what I can try next? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message