From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 10:50:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C79337B42C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29DB84F0; Mon, 21 May 2001 09:50:03 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Peter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, unix-wiz@listserv.nodak.edu Subject: Re: Slow transfers one way, fast going other way-- on local LAN. Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:50:02 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052109500200.74760@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 21 May 2001 09:01, Peter wrote: > [sorry about re-post, stupid ctrl+enter==send button, and added subject..] > [You know it's a bad day when you get it right only the fourth time] >   > The LNE100TX saga continues: >   > I've lately had problems playing mp3's that are located on my > FreeBSD on my Windows box, via Samba/Netbios [mp3's skip, > while Windows to Windows they play fine] -- So I tried > something else, I played an MP3 from my Windows machine on > the FreeBSD box, it plays fine. >   > So I did a Samba file transfer from Windows to FreeBSD, I got > a file transfer of around 800kb/sec [is this kilobits or kilobytes > ?] > Trying to then shove the same exact file back to the windows > machine it took about 5 minutes to transfer 2.5MB. hmmm... So > again I grabbed the file from Windows to my FreeBSD box, same > transfer rate [800 kb/sec]. When going FreeBSD to my Win 95 > box the transfer rate is the speed of a 56k modem. >   > Anyone have any idea of what can be causing this? > Also I've noticed if I boot my Windows box to FreeBSD, > transfer speeds dont' Improve going from FreeeBSD to second > FreeBSD box, but from Second to First FBSD box it's good rate. >   > Another thing, if I do ifconfig dc0 down [or 10baseT/UTP], > and then ifconfig dc0 media 100baseTX up, > then do a file/ftp transfer, speeds are great for about > 100MB, then die down as the transfer continues. Seems to be > happening only going one way. >   > LNE100TX cards, Linksys HUB, transfers work great in Windows > Anything you guys can think of that could be causing this? > This was all tested running @ 100baseTX on windows and > freebsd. Initally done with a 30MB file, once that worked > re-tested with a 500MB file, Win to FreeBSD [FreeBSD > initiating the transfer all times via smbclient]...... > FreeBSD 4.3-Stable. >   > Took me about 15 seconds to grab the 30MB .wav file from > Windows, took about 5 minutes to send 2.5MB to Windows -- > using same file. >   > I'm running out of ideas, it can't be the cards/hub, as transfers > work great win to win on the same exact machines [I went and > even installed FreeBSD on one of them just in case it was some > issue with FreeBSD and Windows, -- FBSD to FBSD still same > problem.] >   > What settings can I check? What can it be? > Can it be the bios? [even though it works in Windows fine] > Do I need to buy new NIC's ? > New computers? [both are 233MMX, the Win box is a no-name > mobo - I think it's crap thats why it has Win 95 on it :) ] >   >   > This whole problem is driving me nuts as I know > I'm probably doing something wrong, I'm about to go > out and buy new pc's just to fix this as it's pissing me off :). You might try setting the NIC to half duplex mode ifconfig(8). Some cards, especially LinkSys seem to have problems running full duplex. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message