Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:27:18 +0100 From: Boldra <paul@boldra.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network not performing - where to start? Message-ID: <47B979A6.9040901@boldra.com> In-Reply-To: <47B9567F.2080803@locolomo.org> References: <47B94EAE.3050002@boldra.com> <47B9567F.2080803@locolomo.org>
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Thanks for your suggestions Erik, I had only been speed testing with smb. I just did a quick test with wget under cygwin and I'm still getting around 1.5MB/second, which is about the same as I get with smb. scp peaked at around 900KB/second, which also seems to suggest the hardware is only working at 10% capacity. Can you point me to a man page or something for your suggestion "use packet filtering statistics" ? Where do I start? Paul Boldra Erik Norgaard wrote: > Boldra wrote: > >> I think ifconfig -a is saying that the os thinks the card is 100Mbit: >> >> ed1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> ether 00:a0:0c:40:32:a3 >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) >> status: active >> >> >> So my questions are: >> How do I check the network performance from within freebsd? >> What other tools can I use to check for network problems? >> How can I check the network card is configured and working correctly? > > It is not irrelevant which protocol you use to copy large files. Some > protocols has less overhead. Also, you may experience better > performance between bsd stations, if you can try set up two bsd > stations to test performance on different protocols, ftp, http, tftp, > whatever. > > I think the best I have had on a 10Mbit/s was 1Mbyte/s - that is about > 80% is actually effective payload. Another thing you can do to get > more correct numbers is to use the packet filtering statistics. > > Cheers, Erik > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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