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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:33:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
To:        Richard Yeardley <r.yeardley@dial.pipex.com>
Cc:        Jeremy Wolf <jeremywolf@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking Problems( the unusual kind)
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902251532460.5836-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36d5b098.76581728@smtp.dial.pipex.com>

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I noticed something similar to this on my 3.1 box, and I turned on TCP
Extensions in rc.conf.  That seemed to solve it, and let me stay at 100FD.

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Richard Yeardley wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:20:46 PST, "Jeremy Wolf"
> <jeremywolf@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >My problem is that I can not send data from my FreeBSD box very fast, 
> >yet i can recieve on it very fast.  This is going over a intel 
> >etherexpress pro 10+ card on a 10BT network.  It does not work correctly 
> >through FTP or SAMBA.  Could someone please help me, its driving me 
> >nuts.  The daemons i am running are samba and inetd.  I do not subscribe 
> >to this mailing list so please send all answers to 
> >jeremywolf@hotmail.com
> 
> I recently had this problem.  The cause was that the network card on
> the FBSD box was set to full-duplex.  Data transfers from the FBSD box
> were fine, but sending files to the box (with Samba or via ftp) either
> took forever or timed out.  When I looked at the hub fixed to the back
> of my desk I noticed the collision light was almost constantly on.
> Setting the card in the FBSD box back to half-duplex fixed this
> straight away.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rich.
> 
> FBSD3.1R : AMD PR75 : 32MB RAM : 335MD HD : V90 modem : NE2000 NIC
> apache 1.3.4+PHP3 : named : qpopper: socks5 : ipfw : mysql : samba
> 
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