From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 1:25: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from info.ucl.ac.be (astrolabe.info.ucl.ac.be [130.104.229.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B5B37B422 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from student.info.ucl.ac.be (corbeau [130.104.228.179]) by info.ucl.ac.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/fg) with ESMTP id KAA06577; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:19:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <39D450A7.85506981@student.info.ucl.ac.be> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:19:51 +0200 From: Nicolas Galler Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E9partement=20d=27ing=E9nierie?= informatique X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Horrilble FTP Peformance Whend Downloading from FBSD - Help Needed References: <200009281908.MAA32446@mail5.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "gummibear@nettaxi.com" wrote: > > I'm a bit at a loss here. I can't seem to figure out why I'm transfering at only 5kps on a 100Mbs switched network. > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1R with the standard ftpd. The FreeBSD box has a tl0 interface plugged into a 3Com 3300 switch. There about 96 users on this network. On my end I have WinNT with a Intel Pro/100 network card. I hope this hardware/software information will help. > > Everything else seems pretty snappy (telnet, dns, etc), but my 96 MB download from my FreeBSD box is crawling. I can't seem to find anything wrong, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places. I tried playing with netstat but since I'm not too familiar with it I wasn't sure what I was looking at. > > Can someone help me out with some tips on where to find this lousy ftp performance issue? > > Thanks! > > Joey > Joey, did you try setting the media type (by using the 'media 100baseTX' option in the ifconfig line for your card)? Auto-detection sometimes can cause horrible performance in FreeBSD for some cards. Nico To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message