From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 12:33:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6B814E14 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:33:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 3356"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #30976) with ESMTP id <0F7Q002IJ93HV4@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:33:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:33:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Networking Problems( the unusual kind) In-reply-to: <36d5b098.76581728@smtp.dial.pipex.com> To: Richard Yeardley Cc: Jeremy Wolf , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message