Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:36:37 +0100 From: "Jan Hudak" <jhudak@cscare.com> To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ftp download from FreeBSD box Message-ID: <004301bf3a6e$d8a0e5a0$0301a8c0@jhudak.my.domain>
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>> Couple of hours ago I've downloaded 8MB file over the Internet (I use >> FreeBSD box as an inet gateway) Download time: 18 minutes over ISDN. But >> when I tried to copy it on the laptop using standard win95 ftp client, it >> was even slower than that - 24 minutes. > >Were you copying it from your FreeBSD gateway onto your Win95 box? If >so, you need to find out how busy your local ether is at the time of the >copy. > >To do that, you can use a utility like trafshow (in the net category of >the ports tree, see http://www.freebsd.org/ports/) to show you what's >happening on your network. Be sure to tell trafshow which interface to >look at with the -i option. > >You should probably also consider what work your Win95 box is doing at >the time of the transfer. I'm pretty sure Quake, for example, would >slow your transfers down. :-) > >Ciao, >Sheldon. I've done some more investigation. I can reproduce this situation at will. It does not depend on local ethernet load or PPP iface. It seems that it is not even ftp related. I've generated a big mail message in /var/mail/ , enabled popper and pointed a MS Outlook on laptop to my FreeBSD machine. Download was ridiculuosly slow for a LAN. More on that ftp transfer: When uploading from win95 to bsd, NIC LEDs are lit continuously. While downloading from bsd to windows laptop, LEDs blink approx. every half a second. Hash marks in ftp client come up in groups of two, on each ethernet activity (seems to mean 2kB/half-a-second) I've tested it on both boxes freshly booted, not logged in FreeBSD box. Windows with DOS box running ftp client only. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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