From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 16:47:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12457 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:47:33 GMT (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA04791 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:47:58 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-165.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.165), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda04783; Sat Apr 18 09:47:55 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: Subject: ed0 device: Gruesome performance with TCP Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:51:20 +1000 Message-ID: <01bd6a5b$b83214e0$a51a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. Have done some tests and found that my 2.2 stable box is giving only between 5 kb/sec and 25 kb/sec with ftp and samba. 10BaseT network, NE2000 compatable ed0 device on the isa bus. This slowness has been isolated to the BSD box. It took me 6 months to notice this - I usually just run netatalk and a apache, and I was trying to find out why samba was so slow. Netatalk can transfer files at around 0.5 Mb/sec - which is around what I'd expect. When the really slow ftp process is running, I notice the collision light on the network hub is blinking on and of about once a second - steady - even when there are only two machines up on the network. On the other hand, I the put in a PCI 10 base T NE2000 card (ed1) and configured that as the primary interface, rebooted, and voila! ftp is now around 600 kb/sec. I still need to use the ISA card as I'm running out of slots, (will be using the BSD box as a router). Any pointers as to where I should start troubleshooting? I due to all the collisions that occur I'm beginning to think it is a shonky card. Thanks in advance Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message