From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 13:35:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8949537B74D for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-143.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.143] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA24811; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:36:11 +1100 From: Danny To: "Bruce DeVault" Subject: Re: Communication between FreeBSD & Solaris Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:34:00 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <001701bf887b$a2ffa0c0$0c01a8c0@wkbruce> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030908381306.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry I meant to type "swapping" the hub over. In regards to your situation Even though you have 10/100 you should get much faster speeds than 65KB/s. What kind of Processor does FreeBSD? And have you checked for conflicting IP addresses in your network? ( As I suspect that might be the case) Looking forward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I don't have your answer, but here's a related bit of anecdotal information. > > If you're using a switching hub, or a 10/100 hub, the hub's translation > between > 10mbit and 100mbit may be the culprit, although the speeds you're citing are > extremely slow. > > We experienced a similar slowdown after a 10/100 partial migration, with > communications between SCO Openserver and FreeBSD. With all equipment > running on 10mbit cards w/ 10mbit half duplex hub, it took about 2 hours to > do a transfer of known size that occurs every day here. After upgrading most > of the servers to 100mbit cards, and installing a full duplex, 10/100mbit > switch, > but with one server still with a 10mbit half duplex card, we found that the > transfer time actually *increased* by almost an hour. Disappointing to say > the > least. Transfers amongst the other servers with 100mbit full duplex cards > were > quite significantly faster, of course. > > Planned solution: replace the 10mbit half duplex card. > > Bruce DeVault > InTech Software > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Danny" > To: "Young M. Park" ; > > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 3:11 PM > Subject: Re: Communication between FreeBSD & Solaris > > > > > > The difference should never be the case. > > > > You should ponder on looking for things in your network such as:- > > > > - Maybe someone in the network has two 192.168.1.1 and that could slow > down > > your network > > > > - Have you tried switching the hub as a test? > > > > there could be many reasons. > > > > Looking forward to your feedback. > > > > dannyh > > > > dannyh@idx.com.au > > > > On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Young M. Park wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > I am experiencing awefully slow transmission rate (65KB/s) when > > > transfering files from a FreeBSD machine to UltraSparc 1 running solaris > > > 7. > > > > > > They are connected via Intel FastEthernet Switch Hub. FreeBSD machine's > > > interface is fxp0(Intel 100Mbps Lan Card) and UltraSparc's is 10 Mbps > LAN > > > card. > > > > > > I am wondering what's the cause for this slow transmission rate. > > > > > > Could it be the O/S? or different interfaces? or etc? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > - Young > > > > > > PS: I am not on the maillling list, please put me in reply to field. > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message