From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 7 23:49:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB7D16A40F for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:49:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from smtp1.inkorgen.com (smtp1.inkorgen.com [82.99.44.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906C843D6A for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:49:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from proxy1.inkorgen.com (proxy1 [192.168.100.1]) by smtp1.inkorgen.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k97NoASa090896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:50:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [81.170.248.84] (81-170-248-84.bahnhofbredband.net [81.170.248.84] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by proxy1.inkorgen.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k97NlQBv035321 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2006 01:47:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <45283D24.1010109@swehack.se> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:49:56 +0200 From: nocturnal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (smtp1.inkorgen.com [192.168.25.1]); Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:50:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Network dies after a while with high torrent load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:49:49 -0000 Hi This is the second time i've posted this to the list and explaining why will also explain some of the background for the problem. The last time i was having these problems was when i was downloading a certain thing each week using torrent, rtorrent running as a user. I stopped doing this for a while this summer but now i'm at it again and the problem is back. I think it's because this particular torrent has a lot of seeds and transfers a lot of data, very fast to me. I'm limited to 10Mbit/s here at home and ifstat -b reports over 10000 constantly for a while before my network just dies and no data at all gets sent. At this point i can fix the problem by running dhclient on my network card again. During one transfer of around 300MB i had to run dhclient at least 15 times. I have a IBM ThinkPad R40 laptop with a Intel Pro 10/100 ethernet card using the fxp driver. Right now i'm running 6.1-RELEASE but i've been running FreeBSD on this laptop since i had 4.9-RELEASE. I can recreate the problem anytime i find a torrent that has enough seeds so that i can maintain the maximum speed for 10-15 seconds. The time it takes for my network to die is very random. Sometimes my net doesn't die at all if the torrent can't maintain over 10000bit/s, it only has to drop once in ifstat for the network to handle it. I'm about to call my ISP and complain because i doubt this is a FreeBSD problem but i would like to have some confirmation from others on the list that it is possible to transfer 10 or more Mbit/s with much torrent traffic using the fxp driver in FreeBSD. Another reason i suspect something with my ISP is the fact that it dies at the speed i pay them for, it could be some error in the equipment they use to cap my bandwidth. I have no messages to show and i'm afraid i forgot to check ifconfig while the network was down but ifstat which is running constantly in a small window on my desktop reports 0.00 in and out while the network is down. -- Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se