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Date:      Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:45:17 -0500
From:      Tom Embt <tom@embt.com>
To:        TENEBRAE <tenebrae@flash.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internal network transfers
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.20000108184517.01635130@mail.embt.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000108091716.00a46410@pop.flash.net>
References:  <4.2.2.20000108085051.00a46430@pop.flash.net>

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At 09:19 01/08/2000 -0600, TENEBRAE wrote:
>At 09:00 AM 1/8/00 -0600, I wrote:
>>I can send files _to_ the BSD machine just fine, averaging about 1100+ 
>>KB/s, but when I try to pull them back to the Windows box, my transfer 
>>rates are extremely slow, as it's currently sending it over at about 3KB/s.
>
>One bit of information that I excluded, was that I put another Windows box 
>on the network, and the two Windows machines transferred files back and 
>forth at 1100+ KB/s, so the hub, CAT5's, etc seem to be working 
>fine.  Thanks again.
>      -W.P.
>
>


In my experience this kind of grossly asymmetric speed often indicates a
duplex problem (ie - autonegotiation failed), most likely on the FreeBSD
box.  Assuming the network interface on your FreeBSD machine is called
'pn0', try something like the following:

ifconfig pn0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex



Tom Embt
tom@embt.com



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