From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 8 8:10:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A906437B409; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magpage.com (cassidy.magpage.com [216.155.24.137]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f98FAM108503; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BC1D004.9000104@magpage.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:10:44 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011002 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Braniss Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange network performace References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny Braniss wrote: > setup: > host A: dual pentium III/1GHz (Dell 2450) > host B: dual pentium III/950MHz (Intel STL2) > host C: Pentium III/1GHz (Dell GX150) > > all connected at 100Mgb full duplex > all three are running FreeBSD 4.4. > > all three have identical troughput when writing to a NetAPP fileserver ~ 10MBs > > but: > B -> A: ~ 6MBs > C -> A: ~ 2MBs > > Q: why is C -> A so bad? > show us the output of "ifconfig -a" on each box. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message