From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 12: 4:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.carolina.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBC137B409 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from snafu.enterit.com ([66.57.159.198]) by mail8.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:04:14 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010811152330.01ffef68@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: jconner@enterit.com@mail.enterit.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:26:50 -0400 To: "Steven" From: Jim Conner Subject: Re: Slow Ethernet Cc: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 07:31 PM 08.11.2001 +0100, Steven wrote: >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. Yeah...that can always be a possible issue. Have you tried placing the card in a different slot? One thing I would have checked long ago is if the card is negotiating properly with the hub/switched hub. Is it half or full duplex? Is it 10 or 100 mbit? One thing I recommend is to set it to 10 half and see if that solves the problem. This issue could be the port that its plugged into on the hub. Have you checked that yet? Have you tried swapping the connections on the hub so that the machine that is acting up is on a port that isn't and vice versa? I bet once you do these things you have found your problem. - Jim >Thanks > >Steven > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - Jim -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=67861&lastnode_id=67861 -----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Version: 0.01 Version: 3.12 P++>*@$c?P6?R+++>++++@$M GIT/CM/J d++(--) s++:++ a- >++++$O!MA->++++E!> PU-->+++BD C++++(+) UB++++$L++++$S++++$ $C-@D!>++++(-)$S++++@$X?WP+>++++MO!>+++ P++(+)>+++++ L+++(++++)>+++++$ !E* +PP+++>++++n-CO?PO!o >++++G W++(+++) N+ o !K w--- PS---(-)@ PE >*(!)$A-->++++@$Ee---(-)Ev++uL++>*@$uB+ Y+>+++ PGP t+(+++)>+++@ 5- X++ R@ >*@$uS+>*@$uH+uo+w-@$m! tv+ b? DI-(+++) D+++(++) G(++++) ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message