From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:36:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27310 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27300 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA28520; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jerry Blancher cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kingston KNE30T PCI In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jerry Blancher wrote: > I have the Kingston KNE30T PCI ethernet card. It is set up on a new > system with NO load and NO traffic. Here is a clipping of my system: > > CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping=2 > Features=0x8001bf > real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) > avail memory = 61206528 (59772K bytes) > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > chip0 rev 3 on > pci0:0: > 0 > chip1 rev 39 on > pci0:7 > :0 > pci0:7:1: VIA Technologies, device=0x0571, class=storage (ide) [no driver > assign > ed] > ed1 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11:0 > ed1: address 00:c0:f0:2a:7c:29, type NE2000 (16 bit) This would explain why the KNE30 series is so cheap :-( > My first question is, why is it listing it as a (16 bit) card? Probably a leftover from the ISA probe. > My second question is why is it so slow to the first stop (router) > outside of my box.. traceroute: > > 1 badboy.ieway.com (204.188.52.1) 1.991 ms 2.094 ms 2.094 ms > > This new system is also on a new provider. Hm, by comparison, I get ~.7 pinging my Cisco, hitting a hub and a switch first. What kind of router is your router, anyway? > My old system on the old provider with a true 16 bit card running 2.2.5 > (compared to 2.2.6 of the new system) pulls traceroutes to te first router > at times of less then .5 ms > > When the old system and the new system was on the same hub, I could pull > files from the old system to the new system at the rate of over 1MB/sec. > > According to the Kingston manual, > PCI transfer up to 132 MB/sec > EISA transfer up to 33 MB/sec > ISA transfer up to 8 MB/sec This is ideal on a quiet network. Fat chance. > So, my major question is, is it the card, settings, or new provider that > would be slowing down the works? Run a tcpdump and see how busy your network is. The more hubs you go through the slower it gets, and cheap crappy hubs really push that RTT up. > Also, is there a way to do a flood test on the ethernet card to see how > well it handles it's self? ping -f from another UNIX box, but don't do this during the middle of the day. > BTW, GREAT job on 2.2.6, had no problems getting the OS to run, and I see > a few nasty bugs are fixed, mainly the : anyuser can freeze up the machine > with a simple kill command :). Neat :) > Also, I have run many other test's, trying to break the OS (mainly > scripts that run commands and also spawn other process's that do the > same) and the OS ends up freezing the scripts before the system freezes > up. Die, you silly forkbombs! :-) > As far as a server goes, FreeBSD seems to be VERY stable, as most > questions on this list are focasing on home or at least user-at-console > use. Running as designed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message