Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:37:11 +0200 From: Michel Timmerman <m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Speed? Message-ID: <01C03D95.9AE69CC0.m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl>
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>* Michel Timmerman <m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl> [001023 01:00] wrote:
>> Dear FreeBSD,
>>
>> I have got a question about the connection speed with FreeBSD. I
recently
>> installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto my Pentium II 233 system. The system is up
and
>> running and everything seems to work fine, but when I'm at school and do
a
>> telnet session to my FreeBSD system, which is connected to the internet
via
>> cable modem, the connection is very, very slow. I previously used Linux
>> Slackware 7.1 and the connection was much faster. It probably has
something
>> to do with some configuration settings, or so I hope it does...
>>
>> I hope you can help me out here, or else I will be forced to uninstall
>> FreeBSD because of the low connection speed. :(
> Try flipping the duplex setting on your card, see the ifconfig manpage
> for details.
> -Alfred
I looked at the man page but as far as I see it doesn't mention any duplex
settings. I searched on the internet for ifconfig docs and found the option
'speed' must be used to set duplex settings. So I tried '# ifconfig ep1
speed 20' (20 = full duplex) But the system responds with 'ifconfig: speed:
bad value'. Maybe I need a new version of ifconfig?
This is the output of 'ifconfig ep1' :
ep1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe12:e1d7%ep1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 212.92.72.168 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 212.92.79.255
ether 00:10:4b:12:e1:d7
media: 10baseT/UTP
supported media: 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP
ep1 is my cable provider nic. It is configured by DHCP.
Michel Timmerman.
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