Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:06:11 +1100 From: death <death@southcom.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DFE-530TX NIC - fast receive, slow send Message-ID: <4.2.2.19991217205117.00a1d7e0@mail.southcom.com.au>
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Hi,
I've got a major problem which i can't figure out how to fix. I'm running
FreeBSD 3.4-RC on a p166 with 32MB, D-link DFE-530TX. It's connected to a
K6-2 400, 192MB ram, windows 98se, again with a D-link DFE-530TX.
I get great sends from the windows box to FreeBSD. FTP and samba get
3.5MB/s, which maxes out the dodgy 1GB slow HDD that FreeBSD has - it
thrashes constantly until the file transfer is done. Network benchmarks on
the windows box tell me 8.5MB/s. The cards are running in Full-Duplex
100Mbps along a 10 metre CAT 5 UTP cable.
Unfortunately though, sends from FreeBSD go horrendously slow. Both FTP and
samba only send at 500KB/s at the most. Usually averaging around 250KB/s.
I was reading through the mailing list archive and found somebody who had
the exact same symptoms as mine - fast receives, but slow sends, and ftpd
sending data in bursts every few seconds. But i couldn't find the solution
to his problem.
Anybody have any ideas why it's going so slow? Here's a few snips of my
config. This is from dmesg:
vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x06 int a irq 11 on pci0.18.0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:d8:19:b7
vr0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)
And ifconfig:
vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:80:c8:d8:19:b7
media: 100baseTX <full-duplex>
supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
<half-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP
<half-duplex>
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 576
inet 210.84.240.184 --> 210.84.63.240 netmask 0xffffff00
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
Can anybody please help?
Cheers
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