From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 17:02:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10384 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au (buffy.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10372 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23572; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:02:19 +1000 Received: from tar-ppp-167.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.167), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda23512; Wed Sep 30 10:02:11 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: "douglas jacobsen" Cc: Subject: Re: __REALLY__ slow tcp communications... Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:01:39 +1000 Message-ID: <01bdec05$7fd68a00$a71a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a similar problem, until I noticed that my cards were recognised as "SIMPLEX" at boot time, but set to DUPLEX in default factory config. I dug out the MS-DOS config disk for the cards and set the cards on FreeBSD *AND* W95 boxes to SIMPLEX, and saw speed go from 18 k/sec to 500 k/sec. >On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, douglas jacobsen wrote: >> i've got a freebsd 3.0-BETA box playing the role of server/gateway on my >> LAN. i need to run Samba, but when the client systems connect, the >> transfer rates plummet... (using tcp/ip).. the nics in the system are >> realtek 8029s. > >There are some hints scattered about the samba faq on tuning. >I think the biggest improvement comes from adding > >socket options = TCP_NODELAY > >to your smb.conf > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message