Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:22:47 -0500 (EST) From: matthew <matthew@netway.com> To: Graham North <graham.north@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP difficulties 4.8R Message-ID: <20040216031501.C81787@admin1.mdc.net> In-Reply-To: <005201c3f464$50035b10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20040216021051.038c7008@albert> <001e01c3f45d$ae769a10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix> <005201c3f464$50035b10$6a7ba8c0@phoenix>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Graham North wrote: > Mathew: > > You must know your way around network cards!? A mixed blessing at the very least. I get a lot of old stuff. never new. > 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 different driver i assume makes all the ?difference? > - if Windows can make the card work nicely then shouldn't there be > some similiar setting I can do for nic configuration in FBSD? > These cards can only be configured from win98/dos tool from 3com. I was just recently using it, and it would not let me do much. I could switch from AUI, ethernet port, etc.. I could not change the duplex setting. Strange old tool. Maybe I missed on how to do it. Could be worth checking into but i doubt it since it was used before with ethernet. > > > Clearly I am still low on the learning curve, now I have to look up what > mediaopt is..? > ifconfig ep0 media 10BaseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex is an example. ep0 wont accept the mediaopt. and nothing really to change with media.. being only a 10mb/s card. So one ussually tries to make the router persuade it into something instead of relying on auto-negotiation. > >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... while at work mooch a different isa card. or if this is a laptop which it sounds like, have fun. m > 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" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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