Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:03:59 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net (Keith Petersen) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor Internet throughput on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <199912300503.XAA20111@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <19991229233921.w8sdz@Mail.Petersen.Net> from "Keith Petersen" at Dec 29, 1999 11:39:21 PM
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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! > What type of ethernet cards are you using? Posting a 'dmesg' from both systems would probably help, too. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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