From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 15:53:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA23467 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:53:31 -0800 Received: from jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil [129.52.114.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA23459 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 15:53:23 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA05757; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 19:59:46 GMT Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 19:59:40 +0000 () From: "Jeffrey D. Dean " To: Jeremy Noetzelman cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Incredibly slow ethernet performance. In-Reply-To: <309D2EE9@mailgate.asymetrix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Jeremy Noetzelman wrote: > > 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. What IRQ are you using? IRQ3 is common for 3com cards -BUT That is what COM2 (ttyd1) uses. Maybe they are sharing the same irq which would explain the slow response? Jeff > > If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. > > Jeremy Noetzelman > jeremyn@asymetrix.com > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - - Computer Technician / Programmer - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - - root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=