From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 17 07:31:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11619 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11552 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA21480; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:35:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980217103616.00fc3490@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:36:17 -0500 To: Brandon Gillespie , FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dennis Subject: Re: Networking Oddity, 16k/sec over 10B2, long pauses. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message