From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 11:33:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A53437B401 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steven@trance.org) Received: from cartman ([62.253.139.38]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010811183313.RAPR710.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@cartman> for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 19:33:13 +0100 From: "Steven" To: Subject: Slow Ethernet Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 19:31:22 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I setup an i386 machine running fbsd 4.3-release a while ago to run as a squid cache server for our network. There are other fbsd machines on the network (which incidently all have the same network card chipset - realtek), and they do not suffer from the same problem. The problem is that the machine can't seem to transfer files at faster than 10k/sec over the network card. I was originally going to install the os from ftp, but it was transfering so slowely that I had to download the iso to another machine (I can shift upto 70k/sec to other machines from the net) and install from CD. I have done 2 full installs since and the problem is not solved. To give an example, last night I downloaded jdk (approx 27megs) to the machine and it was transfering at between 0.5k/sec to 13k/sec, so in the end i gave up. So I then had to download the same file to another fbsd machine (at between 25k/sec to 50k/sec) and burn it to cd. I have replaced the network card with another (same chipset) and the problem remains. Is it possible this is due to the motherboard (which is an errrm, rather cheap and nasty unbranded one with onboard sound/modem/vga) as opposed to software? Any other ideas are welcomed. Thanks Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message