From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 2 01:14:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA25979 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25973 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.efn.org [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13224; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Adam Furman cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: network card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Adam Furman wrote: > I run a FreeBSD server runing 2.1.0 and runing it on a 486 dx4-100 with > 36mb of ram, 48 mb swap, a 1,3gig ide hardrive and a LinkSYS Network > card. My problem is the ping times on the network card are around .80 > when pinging it self. The config on that card is 0x300 and irq 5 using > le1 as it driver. My problem is the other two servers in the isp are > getting around .20 when pinging it self and using a different driver. I > would like to know what is wrong and what can maybe be done. Please I > need help. > Adam if your talking about pinging yourself it has nothing to do with your network card... it has to do with things like cpu... you have to relize that when you ping localhost you do everything localy and don't touch the network... what are your other two servers? pentium systems?... my AMD 5x86/133 gets around .8ms ping times too... jtymltk... TTYL.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)