From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 5:38: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kosice.telecom.sk (kosice.telecom.sk [195.146.134.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DF415139 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhudak@cscare.com) Received: from jhudak.my.domain (prem36-hume.telecom.sk [212.5.201.36]) by kosice.telecom.sk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA03271; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:38:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <004301bf3a6e$d8a0e5a0$0301a8c0@jhudak.my.domain> From: "Jan Hudak" To: "Sheldon Hearn" Cc: Subject: Re: ftp download from FreeBSD box Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:36:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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