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Subject: Re: lan speed
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 02:59:34 +0100
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> Hi. I have win2k box with 100mb card in it, and a Freebsd dual homed box
> with 100mb on local interface and 10mb on internet side.
> when transfering files from win2k to freebsd i get max 60kb/s throughput,
> and 3com 10/100 hub shows load of only 10%.
> what can be done to acchive a higher rate? thank you

Make sure you set the media type rather than allowing auto-select (the default).

In your rc.conf on the freeBSD box, you need, in the ifconfig_xl0 line,

media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

and in the properties for your network card on win2k you also should make sure it's set to
100mb and full duplex rather than auto detect. Although it IS connecting at 100mb, the
auto detect routines use TONS of bandwidth to check which transport they should be using,
cutting the rate right down.

I did this with my 10Mbps cards, and the rate went from 150kbps to 7.5mbps.

Mark


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