From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 15:45:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7069F1508A for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 15:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA17777; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:53:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000108184517.01635130@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:45:17 -0500 To: TENEBRAE , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: Internal network transfers In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000108091716.00a46410@pop.flash.net> References: <4.2.2.20000108085051.00a46430@pop.flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message