Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:42:20 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jeremyn@mailgate.asymetrix.com (Jeremy Noetzelman) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incredibly slow ethernet performance. Message-ID: <199511052242.OAA05456@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <309D2EE9@mailgate.asymetrix.com> from "Jeremy Noetzelman" at Nov 5, 95 12:38:00 pm
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you've got the wrong interrupt on the network card? (sounds you are only getting packets when the timeout code wanders off to see what's taking so long..) > > > I've got a 486/33 running FreeBSD 2.0.5, with a 3Com 3C509 Ethernet card. > I'm connected to a 10MBit ethernet segment. > > I'm getting absolutely pitiful network performance. Ping times to my other > desktop machine, a Windows NT box, on the same segment, are averaging about > 1000ms. I can ping a SparcStation on a different segment with roughly the > same response times. Ping times from my NT box to the Sparc are under 10ms. > > I've recompiled the kernal removing the SLIP/PPP stuff, and the drivers for > devices I don't have, but that failed to improve performance any. > > If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. > > Jeremy Noetzelman > jeremyn@asymetrix.com >
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