From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Jun 13 06:52:32 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA01336
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:52:32 -0700
Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA01308
          for <freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com>; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:52:27 -0700
From: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at
Received: from aut.alcatel.at (dnisun.aut.alcatel.at) by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA03903
  (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for <freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com>); Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:52:19 +0200
Received: from atuhc16 by aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main)
	id AA07855; Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:52:18 +0200
Message-Id: <9506131352.AA07855@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at>
Received: by atuhc16
	(1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA06736; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:52:18 +0200
Subject: Slow networking with SMC Elite Ultra
To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:52:17 METDST
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

Hi all,

first of all, as far as I can tell, everything works okay.

But:

I have two 486 boxes on the isolated piece of ether.  I've set
up networking between the boxes, and they see each other and
communicate okay, but *very slowly*.

The ether cards are SMC Elite Ultra's, 83-something, which used to
be recognized as 8216 w/16 kB of RAM at 2.0R times, and are 
recognized as 8416 w/8 kB at 2.05A.  They did work okay on 2.0R!

Right now, my NFS read (cat something >/dev/null) runs at
approximately 200 kBps, and FTP get is someplace between 200 and 450 kBps.

These numbers seem rather low to me (NFS used to be ~670 kBps but FTP
only 200-250 kBps, at 2.0R)

What am I doing wrong?

(sorry about to few details, I have no internet access from home)

Thanks, (for all the great work so far, etc :)
/Alby