From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 13:02:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E38716A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zircon.seattle.wa.us (dsl231-043-165.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C026B43D2F for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us) Received: (qmail 78733 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2004 20:02:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2004 20:02:25 -0000 From: Joe Kelsey To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086120145.485.482.camel@zircon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 13:02:25 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Network Bandwidth Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:02:26 -0000 I have experienced severe network bandwidth issues on all versions of -stable since 4.8, and yet I have never seen any discussion of these issues. The way I see these issues has come from having side-by-side boxes on the same 100M switch have wildly different bandwidth when talking to various remote sites. For instance, downloading ports, the newer box (post 4.8) regularly suffers under 1M bandwidth, while the 4.7 box merrily trots along at maximum speed. This seems somehow unrelated to the actual network hardware, as I have seen the same thing with fxp, de and rl cards. Has anyone explored network bandwidth issues in -stable recently? What can I do to work out these problems? Thanks. /Joe