Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:34:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: FBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network trickles ...... Message-ID: <20001010153444.Z87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0010091419280.22413-100000@corten5>; from bill@wiliweld.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:35:40PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0010091419280.22413-100000@corten5>
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On Monday, 9 October 2000 at 14:35:40 -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > In using a removable hard drive rack I removed my OpenBSD > hard drive, installed a new drive and loaded FreeBSD-3.4 and 4.0 and > the network setup reduced to just a feeble connection, pings take 5 > seconds if I'm lucky just to return a response from machines on my > local net, there is barely a return on the net. > > I immediately re-installed the OpenBSD-2.7 drive, and > another Linux drive running SuSE and got over 850-kbps as usual > from the ADSL connection here at home. I also ran the FreeBSD box > directly to the ADSL modem in place of my firewall with the > firewall's IP address and the same results. > > I used `/stand/sysinstall` and the networking option from > there and I'm thinking that maybe I'm missing some OPTIONS to add in > that menu, or maybe the wrong module is being used for the Netgear > FX-310TX card which uses the tulip driver in Linux and just SMOKES > even faster in OpenBSD. > > I'm stuck and had to reinstall the OpenBSD drive as you can > tell from my email headers, any help or pointers are > appreciated. The "FreeBSD Handbook " [Advanced Networking Book] > shows nothing in the advanced troubleshooting section also, that was > another investment I'm sure will help me later on other topics but > not so in this problem. This is puzzling. You shouldn't end up using the wrong driver. Can you locate the relevant information in dmesg output, and also give us the output of 'ifconfig -a'. The exact make and model of the board may also be of interest. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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