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To: Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link 
In-reply-to: Message from Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net> 
	of "Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:33 -0800."
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:38:57 -0400
From: Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@fore.com>
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unless I don't understand,

.356 ms << .9 ms (slightly more than a third) 


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In a previous message, Jeffrey Barber writes:

> Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
> 
> bash$ ping localhost
> 
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.342 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.362 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.349 ms
> 
> --- localhost.arctic.net ping statistics ---
> 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.342/0.349/0.362 ms
> 
> bash$ ifconfig -a
> 
> lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> ep0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
>         inet 19.51.13.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 19.51.13.255
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
> tun0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 
> 
> On my Linux box I get a ping response of:
> 
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.0 ms
> 
> Big difference here. Please shed some light on this for me.
> 
> TIA
>