From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 23:21:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D9316A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D0C43D1D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graham.north@telus.net) Received: from phoenix ([142.173.6.125]) by priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with ESMTP id <20040216072148.LENC14099.priv-edtnes57.telusplanet.net@phoenix>; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:21:48 -0700 Message-ID: <001e01c3f45d$ae769a10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix> From: "Graham North" To: , "Rob" References: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:22:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:21:49 -0000 Hi Rob: Thank you for this help. Thanks also to all others who replied this evening. I just came home and it is late so I will pursue all suggestions tomorrow evening. My gut sense is that it is the nic setup - at first I thought it might be my router (and maybe it is part of the problem but I have operated 3 different machines through it and networked them in the past so am starting to get pretty comfortable with it). But tomorrow I will start by checking my cabling carefully - though the same machine if booted into Win98 works flawlessly so I doubt that the problem is cabling or flaky nic. The nic is a 3com 3509 which seems to be well supported. Auto negotiation - that sounds plausible - esp. since sometimes files do get through but painfully slowly. Lowering the MTU setting shouldn't hurt...? To all - thanks again, I will respond further after playing tomorrow. Cheers, Graham/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob" To: "Graham North" ; Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:15 PM Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R > At 13:32 15/02/2004 -0800, Graham North wrote: > >[snip] > >My FreeBSD box on the other hand is a different story. It is a PII 166 > >[snip] > >It does go outside and connect, sometimes I can ftp download some small > >files, most times the process stalls. I generally need to open a new > >terminal to kill the process. > > It may be nothing to do with this, but I get similar problems on my DSL > link with the default MTU setting, 1500, and I can get decidedly better > performance by reducing it. Windows has some sort of dynamic adjustment, > but I've found it's more reliable to set FreeBSD specifically. Try: > > #ifconfig mtu 1438 > > and see if that makes a difference. > > There are optimum values for the mtu, depending on your link parameters, > and various formulae, but try that first before fiddling more. > >