From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 08:36:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA11342 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rock.anchorage.net (guest@rock.anchorage.net [204.17.241.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA11334; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jabpc.rtfm.com (jabpc.rtfm.com [199.237.0.200]) by rock.anchorage.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA03810; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:31:35 -0300 Received: by jabpc.rtfm.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com>; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:36 -0800 Message-ID: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> From: Jeffrey Barber To: "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Very Slow Ethernet Link Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 mtu 1500 ep0: flags=863 mtu 1500 inet 19.51.13.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 19.51.13.255 lo0: flags=8009 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 tun0: flags=8010 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