From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 7 23:13:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18483 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from werple.net.au (werple.mira.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18477 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from cimaxp1.UUCP (Ucimlogi@localhost) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with UUCP id RAA01973 for current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:51:16 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199601080651.RAA01973@werple.net.au> X-Authentication-Warning: werple.net.au: Ucimlogi set sender to cimaxp1!jb using -f Received: by cimaxp1.cimlogic.com.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/10Sep95-0953AM) id AA15137; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:37:59 +1100 From: John Birrell Subject: Ethernet packet loss To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:37:58 +1100 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk G'day, I've just updated a system to 2.2-current as sup'd on Jan 6 and I'm losing lots of packets on a local BASE2 network. The system is configured like this: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jan 9 13:39:55 EST 1996 jb@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au:/u/freebsd/src/sys/compile/FREEBSD1 CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) avail memory = 6877184 (6716K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 765 fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 812MB (1664208 sectors), 1651 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ie0 at 0x360-0x36f irq 7 maddr 0xd0000 msize 65536 on isa <3C507 R1> ethernet address 00:60:8c:5b:06:4a npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface new masks: bio c0004040, tty c0030098, net c0030098 The ethernet card is a 3COM Etherlink 16. I sometimes run NetBSD 1.1A on the same hardware using another disk and the network works fine (I just tried this again to prove to myself that it _still_ works fine). With FreeBSD, though, I have problems with things like NFS (client writes from FreeBSD lock access to the NFS mounted directory), ftp is very slow, rlogins don't always succeed... ping to other machines on the network reports up to 39% packet loss. ping from other machines to the FreeBSD machine reports 0% loss. The FreeBSD figures are worst when the machine is loaded (like a compile). I was having problems before the last sup, so I upgraded to see if life was any better. Its not. 8-(. Is it me? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137