From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 17 12:52:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10489 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10483 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA26541; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:58:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:58:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199609171958.PAA26541@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Hr.Ladavac" From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link (FreeBSD v. Linux) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >E-mail message from Jeffrey Barber contained: >> Thanks for all the responses but still no luck. I had to put linux on the system instead. But I did run a ftp test comparing FreeBSD to Linux. The results: >> >> Using FreeBSD 2.1.0: >> >> ftp transfer with freebsd 1927427 bytes @ 4.2e+02 seconds 4.4kb/s >> >> Removing FreeBSD and Installed Linux 2.0 >> >> ftp transfer with Linux 1927427 bytes @ 3.05 seconds (6.2e+02 kb/s) Wooo Wooo :) >> >> Using the exact same configuration and computer, the reults are in the Linux favor by far. >> Don't know what the problem was. > >This is usually symptomatic for a misconfigured 3com509 where the kernel >does not receive the interrupts (and then it times out and sends a packet >per second.) > >Under FreeBSD these cards have been known to achieve >1000 KB/s, >*iff* correctly configured (i.e. PnP turned off, interrupts on the channel >where the kernel expects them, no irq conflicts, that sort of things.) > >/Marino C'mon now! You can't expect him to do all that, can you? really, an ne2000 on freebsd is faster than a 3com on LINUX! db