From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 10:27:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linuxpower.p00t.net (mke-160-240-116.wi.rr.com [24.160.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE5837B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trout@localhost) by linuxpower.p00t.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8GHbM802746 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:37:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:37:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Tom Duffey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slow LAN FTP downloads Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSD Users, I recently stumbled upon a very odd problem on a FreeBSD 4.1-R system. Any machine on the LAN that connects to this box via FTP gets around 5kb/sec maximum download speed. Upload speeds approach 150KB/sec on the LAN. Machines outside the LAN get between 100-200KB/sec both directions which is about normal for our net connection. The NIC is a RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX and there's nothing strange about the FreeBSD installation, just your typical default installation with the addition of named and apache. Our LAN runs at 10mbit/sec. I've tried everything I know of: switching all cables, different hub, forcing the NIC into 10baseT mode, etc. In addition, I added another drive to this same machine and installed a Linux distribution and it did not suffer the same problem, so it really seems like FreeBSD is the culprit, perhaps there are problems with the RealTek driver? I really appreciate any help you people can offer. I'd rather not have to run Linux on this machine! Please CC any replies to my personal email address. Best Regards, Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message