Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:33:30 +1100 From: eirvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: Darrern <darren@tzeench.dhs.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network lag Message-ID: <3A642379.8D443367@tpgi.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101160201290.2044-100000@tzeench.dhs.org>
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Hi Darrern, Darrern wrote: > > alright, not sure if this is the place for this, but no one seems to know > whats going on and I seem to have confused a lot of people. and we've questions@freebsd.org is probably more appropriate. > even sat down for 6 hours on irc trying to solve it one on one. I've > replaced connectors, etc.. just to clear up my network setup here it is: > > Windows Me:-----UTP----:HUB:----BNC----:FreeBSD:----BNC----:Win98 > > FreeBSD of course is my gateway. my FreeBSD machine has 2 ethernet cards. > one xl0 and one ed0. or 3comm and lynksys. 3com is the outside world, > lynksys is the internal lan. my problem is that at times when there is > absolutely no internal lan traffic I can't reach above 60kps between > 192.168.1.1(bsd) and 192.168.1.5(win me). I can't track the variable I > need to fix. I run natd, and routed(which hasn't helped fix the problem > yet). I have seen my internal net the way it is setup right now go as > high as 800kps. nothing is changed and I can't find the variable I need > to fix, anyone else experiencing this or have any idea how to fix it? OK. The most common cause of problems like this is incorrect duplexing. Unless all your hub is a switch, you probably want half duplex. So you want to make sure all the cards in the internal network are set to half duplex. I used to use a ms-dos utility for ed0 cards. If you've already done this, what is your ftp speed like? Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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