From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 09:45:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA12548 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 09:45:20 -0700 Received: from romulus.reed.edu (root@reed.edu [134.10.2.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA12541 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 09:45:19 -0700 Received: from local by romulus.reed.edu (/\==/\ Smail3.1.25.1 #25.21) id ; Mon, 3 Apr 95 09:45 PDT Message-Id: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 95 09:45 PDT From: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Poor Router performance Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to use FreeBSD 2.0 as a router between a Novell network and a set of Sun systems. We've been using a DOS-based 286 with KA9Q in the past, but want to switch over. The FreeBSD system is a 25MHz 386, and seems to work fine, but FTP performance is very slow - about 3Kb per second. FTPing to either side of the router gets me 80Kb and 30Kb rates, respectively. The system has a blistering 5M of memory and is using a pair of DLink NE2000-type 16-bit boards (DE-220). I built the kernel with the following: device ed0 at isa? port 0x320 net irq 11 vector edintr device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector edintr Can anyone think of why the performance is poor? At one point I ran it with a floppy-disk based version of FreeBSD-1.4 using a DLink and a SMC Elite 16 board and I think the performance was better (but don't quote me on that!). And running KA9Q on this system shows good performance. Thanks! Robert Ankeney