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Date:               Tue, 3 Oct 1995 21:59:23 -800
From:      "David Rompel" <rompel@best.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:         pls help diagnos ethernet slow  
Message-ID:  <199510040459.VAA11933@shell1.best.com>

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Hi I have a newly installed freebsd box and an NT box on a local net

When I ftp between the 2, I only get 50-80k/sec which is undesireable
Even a stinking dos box does this much, with little or no buffering.

Does anyone have any ideas????

Below are details to help diagnose prob. and kernel config file
just in case thats of use  (maybe I messed up on one entry)

Both boxes are load free as is the wire
I see no collisions at LEDS on back of ne2000 card

The freeBSD box has 16M and a slightly modified kernel 
(only deletions and addition of a multiport serial card)
and is otherwise fast as hell.

The NT box is probably not the problem either as it is 3.51 and 
has run wonderfully for a long time.

I have tried both ne2000 and 3com 509 cards in both and this 
is not the problem.

The cable is terminated 6ft of rg58 thin net  (one bud said something 
about too short a cable.  Thats a new one, but considering..... )

when I kill gated transmission speeds up???  ( +20-30k/sec)

when I transfer multiple large files they progressively get slower

Pings average under 1ms.

transfer (viewed via hash) is sporatic with a maybe 10 K at first, pause
and several burst (~60k) at the rate I would expect with 1-1.5 sec 
pauses inbetween with little or no trasfer durring that time.

Basically HELP.....
Dont know enough to straighten it out.  Others I know have nearly 
same setup and no problems (except low end cards == <500k/sec)

---------------------  heres the modified kernel config file --------
# Modfide
# GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks
#
#	GENERIC,v 1.45.2.3 1995/06/05 21:50:41 jkh Exp
#

machine		"i386"
#cpu		"I386_CPU"
#cpu		"I486_CPU"
cpu		"I586_CPU"
ident		NewKernel
maxusers	64

#options	MATH_EMULATE		#Support for x87 emulation
options		INET			#InterNETworking
options		FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options		NFS			#Network Filesystem
options		MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
options		"CD9660"		#ISO 9660 Filesystem
options		PROCFS			#Process filesystem
options		"COMPAT_43"		#Compatible with BSD 4.3
options		"SCSI_DELAY=15"		#Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
options		BOUNCE_BUFFERS		#include support for DMA bounce buffers
options		UCONSOLE		#Allow users to grab the console

config		kernel	root on wd0

controller	isa0
controller	pci0

controller	fdc0	at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk		fd0	at fdc0 drive 0
disk		fd1	at fdc0 drive 1
tape		ft0	at fdc0 drive 2

controller	wdc0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk		wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
disk		wd1	at wdc0 drive 1

controller	wdc1	at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
disk		wd2	at wdc1 drive 0
disk		wd3	at wdc1 drive 1

#controller	ncr0
controller	ahc0

#controller	bt0	at isa? port "IO_BT0" bio irq ? vector btintr
#controller	uha0	at isa? port "IO_UHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector uhaintr
#controller	ahc1	at isa? bio irq ? vector ahcintr
#controller	ahb0	at isa? bio irq ? vector ahbintr
#controller	aha0	at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq ? drq 5 vector ahaintr
#controller	aic0    at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector aicintr
#controller	nca0	at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 vector ncaintr
#controller	nca1	at isa? port 0x350 bio irq 5 vector ncaintr
#controller	sea0	at isa? bio irq 5 iomem 0xc8000 iosiz 0x2000 vector seaintr

controller	scbus0

device		sd0

device		st0

device		cd0	#Only need one of these, the code dynamically grows

#device		wt0	at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 vector wtintr
#device		mcd0	at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 10 vector mcdintr
#device		mcd1	at isa? port 0x340 bio irq 11 vector mcdintr

#controller	matcd0	at isa? port ? bio

#device		scd0	at isa? port 0x230 bio

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device		sc0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
# Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver
#device		vt0	at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
#options		"PCVT_FREEBSD=210"	# pcvt running on FreeBSD 2.1
options		XSERVER			# include code for XFree86

device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

# option that serial port is a multiport card
options		"COM_MULTIPORT"

# The native ports on the motherboard
# com1 is used for the mouse so turn on diagnostics and turn off FIFO
# com2 is used for the PPP line out to the ISP so Optimize it
device		sio0	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty flags 0x86 irq 4 vector siointr
device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty flags 0x8c irq 3 vector siointr

#the boca 8 port board ports
device		sio2	at isa? port  0x220 tty flags 0x78d
device		sio3	at isa? port  0x228 tty flags 0x78d
device		sio4	at isa? port  0x240 tty flags 0x78d
device		sio5	at isa? port  0x248 tty flags 0x78d
device		sio6	at isa? port  0x260 tty flags 0x78d
device		sio7	at isa? port  0x268 tty flags 0x78d irq 5 vector siointr


device		lpt0	at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
device		lpt1	at isa? port? tty
device		lpt2	at isa? port? tty

# Order is important here due to intrusive probes, do *not* alphabetize
# this list of network interfaces until the probes have been fixed.
# Right now it appears that the ie0 must be probed before ep0. See
# revision 1.20 of this file.
#device de0
device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
#device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
#device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 net irq  7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr
device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
#device ix0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 32768 vector ixintr
#device le0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 vector le_intr
#device lnc0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 drq 0 vector lncintr
#device lnc1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 drq 0 vector lncintr
#device ze0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector zeintr
#device zp0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector zpintr

pseudo-device	loop
pseudo-device	ether
pseudo-device	log
pseudo-device	sl	2
# ijppp uses tun instead of ppp device
pseudo-device	ppp	2
pseudo-device	tun	1
pseudo-device	pty	64
pseudo-device	gzip		# Exec gzipped a.out's





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