Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 18:18:04 +0100 From: "Jan Hudak" <jhudak@cscare.com> To: "Stephane Leclerc" <sleclerc@netscape.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ftp download from FreeBSD box Message-ID: <004c01bf7711$a5a58220$0301a8c0@my.domain> References: <20000214145636.27570.qmail@ww182.netaddress.usa.net>
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It doesn't happen anymore. I don't know what fixed it but now it is as fast as one could expect. I've installed Samba binaries and afterwards noticed that when I copy files from FreeBSD home directory mapped as win95 local drive - the speed is ok. I checked ftp and it was ok as well. Maybe the Samba patched something in tcpip stack. But don't take may word for it. The only thing I know for sure is that I haven't touched the hardware. > Jan, > > I am having the same problem you had with your FreeBSD box; the downloading > files from Freebsd to win95 is extremely slow. I was searching in Deja.com > for the solution and did not found it yet (see your message below) This is > driving me nuts... what was your solution? > > Thanks! > > --------- > > >> Couple of hours ago I've downloaded 8MB file over the Internet (I use > >> FreeBSD box as an inet gateway) Download time: 18 minutes over ISDN. But > >> when I tried to copy it on the laptop using standard win95 ftp client, it > >> was even slower than that - 24 minutes. > > > >Were you copying it from your FreeBSD gateway onto your Win95 box? If > >so, you need to find out how busy your local ether is at the time of the > >copy. > > > >To do that, you can use a utility like trafshow (in the net category of > >the ports tree, see http://www.freebsd.org/ports/) to show you what's > >happening on your network. Be sure to tell trafshow which interface to > >look at with the -i option. > > > >You should probably also consider what work your Win95 box is doing at > >the time of the transfer. I'm pretty sure Quake, for example, would > >slow your transfers down. :-) > > > >Ciao, > >Sheldon. > > I've done some more investigation. I can reproduce this situation at will. It > does not > depend on local ethernet load or PPP iface. It seems that it is not even ftp > related. > I've generated a big mail message in /var/mail/ , enabled popper and pointed > a MS Outlook on laptop to my FreeBSD > machine. Download was ridiculuosly slow for a LAN. > > More on that ftp transfer: When uploading from win95 to bsd, NIC LEDs are lit > continuously. While downloading from > bsd to windows laptop, LEDs blink approx. every half a second. Hash marks in > ftp client come up in groups of two, on > each ethernet activity (seems to mean 2kB/half-a-second) I've tested it on > both boxes freshly booted, not logged in > FreeBSD box. Windows with DOS box running ftp client only. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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