From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 13 12:53:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020C437B416 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EcpU-0000TN-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:51:44 +0000 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:51:44 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Thomas Zenker , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP stack still hosed? Message-ID: <20011213205144.GA1488@irrelevant.org> References: <20011213105451.A738@mezcal.tue.le> <200112131102.fBDB2WQ66827@apollo.backplane.com> <20011213185153.A365@mezcal.tue.le> <200112131852.fBDIqNF70268@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112131852.fBDIqNF70268@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:52:23AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Very interesting! Well, I'm glad you tracked it down. Hopefully the > USB authors can solve the buffering issues. We don't want to change > the default back to its old lower value because it completely kills > performance over the more common ethernete interfaces. > > You can also try dropping your USB ethernet down from 100BaseT to 10BaseT > (if it happens to be running at 100). Placing a 100BaseT ethernet > on a USB connection has always seemed to be an oxymoron to me. I don't > know why anyone even sells such a product. I've had to get 100Mb USB once in order to plug my laptop into a 100Mb only switch where I worked, that's the only reason I see for them. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message