Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:39:21 EST From: w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net (Keith Petersen) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Poor Internet throughput on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <19991229233921.w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net>
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I just installed FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a 400 mHz Pentium II machine with 256 megs of RAM with an ethernet connection to a Livingston 128kb ISDN Office Router. My old machine is a 100 mhz Pentium with 64 megs of RAM running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE. It also has an ethernet connection to the same router. The two machines have excellent throughput to each other but file transfers to and from a host running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE located 600 miles away on the same Internet backbone differs greatly. Using the same 198Kb file for both tests here are the results of the outgoing FTP: FreeBSD 3.3 = 2.2 Kb/second FreeBSD 2.2 = 47 Kb/second sysctl shows that both hosts are using essentially the same net.inet settings. ifconfig shows both ethernet interfaces are 1500 MTU. I have tried transfers between the new machine and other hosts in various parts of the US and observed the same poor performance. It has made installation of various ports a real pain when the distribution file was needed. Help! Keith -- Keith Petersen, President & CEO Petersen Data Management, Inc. w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net Voice and Fax: (904) 304-3349 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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