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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:36:17 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking Oddity, 16k/sec over 10B2, long pauses.
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980217103616.00fc3490@etinc.com>

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At 04:51 PM 2/16/98 -0700, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
>We have a 10B2 network.  It was getting a little large, so we installed an
>Asante 10B2 hub.  Before the hub installed I could get great transfer
>rates.  Now, I get 16k/sec transfer rates (via ftp).  When I turn on
>hashing in ftp I see it download a chunk, then wait, then download a
>chunk, then wait.  The waits are usually a second long.  I am also seeing
>a collision light on the hub.  I'm wondering if this pause is FreeBSD
>collecting its marbles after a collision; and what could possibly be
>causing the collision in the first place.  *Nothing* was changed on the
>network (or nodes on the network) other than installing the hub and
>splitting into segments.  Also, this problem only appears with FreeBSD
>boxes--ftping from a powermac over the hub to a Digial Unix box gets
>decent transfer rates.

Its more likely your hub dropping a packet.

dennis

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