From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 11:43:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03265 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03248 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA18357; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:42:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Claudio Eichenberger cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel / network problem In-Reply-To: <199801260805.JAA16554@nty.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Claudio Eichenberger wrote: > Hi, > > I've stated a (network / kernel) problem and cannot find how to solve it. Please could you help me. > Many thanks for your help in advance. Yes, we can. > Only a few K bytes/sec get transfered by a Thin-ethernet. Test > were run using the program 'spray'. Even by spraying on localhost the > transfer rate can be as low as 19K bytes/sec. Spray uses RPC calls which isn't too accurate. How about a big FTP? You're getting a lot of dropped packets. Check your cabling. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major