From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 15:03:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15216 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15183 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24979; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:03:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:03:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sean Lyndersay cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 In-Reply-To: <000c01bd5adc$d4eabb20$78a3f78c@lynders.student.harvard.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Sean Lyndersay wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 from the Walnut Creek CD set, with no major > problems. However, when attempt to use any network functions (telnet, for > instance), my performance is very very slow, comparable, or worse than a > modem. I have a 3Com 3c509 ISA card which has worked fine in Windows 3.x, > Windows 95, NT, OS/2 and Linux. I found a reference to poor performance in > the newsgroup archives but it refered to "buggy" drivers in the 2.1.x > distribution. Are the drivers still buggy, or is there something I can do > (short of buying a new card, as suggested in some recent posts in the > newsgroup). I don't appear to be getting buffer overruns or any similar > thing. Thoughts would be appreciated. Check that your Ethernet card isn't using the resources of another device. Slow Ethernet performance can sometimes be linked to sharing IRQs with another device. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message