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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Incredibly slow ethernet performance.
To: jeremyn@mailgate.asymetrix.com (Jeremy Noetzelman)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 14:42:20 -0800 (PST)
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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
>