Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:10:16 -0800 From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> To: "matthew" <matthew@netway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R Message-ID: <005201c3f464$50035b10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> <001e01c3f45d$ae769a10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix> <20040216023150.F81787@admin1.mdc.net>
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Mathew: You must know your way around network cards!? Unfortunately this one is part of a docking station (which I would like to use) for the XPI, and you are correct it is ep0. I do have a second option in the form of a more recent linksys pcmcia card which can be stuck into a side slot - but will have then have to look into conflicts when docked. You said: > See if your router can set its interface to 10BaseT/UTP full duplex. > do a download test. > Change router to half duplex... > download test. I used this card for two years with Win98 through this router without problem - if Windows can make the card work nicely then shouldn't there be some similiar setting I can do for nic configuration in FBSD? Clearly I am still low on the learning curve, now I have to look up what mediaopt is..? >You cannot use the > the mediaopt option with ifconfig. no one bothered to code it > into the driver. unlike xl0... Thanks again for your help. Tomorrow, after work... Cheers, g/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "matthew" <matthew@netway.com> To: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; "Rob" <robert@irrelevant.com> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:35 PM Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R > > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: > > > 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 > > I thought so. it is a 10mb/s card only, full and half duplex. > I will never use one of those ISA cards again. > I now throw them out. > > See if your router can set its interface to 10BaseT/UTP full duplex. > do a download test. > Change router to half duplex... > download test. > > If router cannot change its settings, do this on the freebsd machine. > I am quite sure, you are using ep0. You cannot use the > the mediaopt option with ifconfig. no one bothered to code it > into the driver. unlike xl0... > > if you cannot resove the issue, i would seriously look for a pci > card you can slap in it. > > l8r > > m > > > 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" <robert@irrelevant.com> > > To: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > 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 <network_interface> 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. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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