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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:51:34 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Tim Ayers <tayers@bridge.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC throughput slowness 
Message-ID:  <200011222151.NAA18369@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Nov 2000 12:51:48 CST." <r943262j.fsf@tim.bridge.com> 

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>I have just installed FreeBSD4.1.1 onto a computer with an Intel Pro
>10/100B/100+ Ethernet card connected to a 100Mb Ethernet network. I am
>noticing very slow network throughput (like 0.24 Mbps) for this
>computer. I'm gauging this by FTP'ing a 1MB file around between
>different machines on our local network.
>
>The computer has two NIC cards, but I've only set up/activated one
>card. According to 'ifconfig' the card is using 100baseTX. I checked
>the router/hub and it is using FAST ethernet for this machine's
>connection.

   Sounds like a problem with the duplex autonegotiation with your switch. Try
setting both ends to forced full-duplex. If that doesn't work, try setting 
both to half-duplex.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
Pave the road of life with opportunities.

>I've noticed that the times returned by 'traceroute' between my
>various machines seem the same, so maybe the problem is just with
>FTP. 'traceroute -P TCP' (FTP uses TCP, right?) always times out so
>I'm not sure. I don't know what other "benchmarks" to try.
>
>Here's some info I hope is pertinent. 
>
>  bash-2.04$ dmesg | grep fxp
>  fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xcc80-0xccbf mem 0xfe100000-0xfe1fffff,0xfe201000-0xfe201fff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0
>  fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:84:92:0e
>  fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xcc40-0xcc7f mem 0xfe000000-0xfe0fffff,0xfe200000-0xfe200fff irq 18 at device 14.0 on pci0
>  fxp1: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:84:93:1f
>
>  bash-2.04$ ifconfig
>  fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>          inet 167.76.89.57 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 167.76.89.255
>          inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe84:920d%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
>          ether 00:d0:b7:84:92:0d 
>          media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
>          supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
>  fxp1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>          ether 00:d0:b7:84:8b:e4 
>          media: autoselect status: no carrier
>          supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
>  lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>  ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>  faith0: flags=8000<MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>  gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>  gif1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>  gif2: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>  gif3: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
>  lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
>          inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
>          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
>
>
>I'm not sure where else to look. Thanks for any help.
>
>Hope you have a very nice day, :-)
>Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com)
>
>
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