From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 09:32:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCB216A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:32:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43ADC43D46 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:32:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so136015wra for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:32:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fdh0nRGkUZKq03ihtyyoLRLHjR6p6q7p48HAnqqpDr1ICjvvLUpHr70m9m+O3JdtRBM+/ct5cxetHKdIriH3Rt9wcI5ld8d0cytVwnjEOBVa/ZNP5Zagbw3X/x7vdClWa6fJcGP1E51hHRVymXRCenioz5Y01Q3E2EISd0kv19E= Received: by 10.54.57.21 with SMTP id f21mr58712wra; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.61.2 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:32:28 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: "Michael C. Shultz" In-Reply-To: <200507261720.11329.ringworm01@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200507261631.45751.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200507261720.11329.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 100Mbit network performance - again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Andrew P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:32:30 -0000 On 7/27/05, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:48, Andrew P. wrote: > > On 7/27/05, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:00, Andrew P. wrote: > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > > > I remember being able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between two Win95 > > > > workstations with NE2000 $10 NIC's installed, connected via BNC cab= le. > > > > I am now able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between all kinds of Windows > > > > 2000/XP machines with all kinds of cheapest 100Mbit ethernet hardwa= re. > > > > > > > > But I have never ever exceeded 8-9Mbytes/s between a Windows machin= e > > > > and a FreeBSD box - _never_. Be it Samba, different ftp/http server= s, > > > > different FreeBSD versions (4.x/5.x), with ipfw enabled or disabled= , > > > > etc., - the speed always hovers around 7-8Mb/s. I know it's not > > > > critical, I know I should've upgraded to Gigabit hardware long ago, > > > > but is there something wrong? > > > > > > > > I tried different linux distros, but they all seem to be even slowe= r. > > > > Wazzup?.. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew P. > > > > > > Here is the "ifconfig" output from a machine that has one nic set at > > > 10Mbit/half duplex and one at 100Mbit full duplex. how does it compar= e > > > with your system? > > > > > > xl0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > > > options=3D1 > > > inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe70:4fb0%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > > inet 71.102.0.97 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 71.102.0.255 > > > ether 00:10:4b:70:4f:b0 > > > media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) > > > status: active > > > xl1: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > > > options=3D1 > > > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > > inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe0a:7cbc%xl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > > > ether 00:10:4b:0a:7c:bc > > > media: Ethernet 100baseTX > > > status: active > > > > Well, if that really matters to you: > > (freebsd 5.4) > > vr0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > > inet6 fe80::20f:3dff:feca:c494%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > inet 192.168.17.217 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.17.255 > > ether 00:0f:3d:ca:c4:94 > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > > status: active > > rl0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > > options=3D8 > > inet 192.168.17.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.17.255 > > ether 00:40:f4:8d:a7:f8 > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > > status: active >=20 > Same netmask for two different segments of the same class C network? How'= s it > work with one segment disconnected? >=20 > -Mike >=20 >=20 > > rl1: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > > options=3D8 > > ether 00:40:f4:8d:9c:af > > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > > status: active > > (fedora core 4) > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2F:04:3E > > inet addr:193.233.5.13 Bcast:193.233.5.63 Mask:255.255.255.= 192 > > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fe2f:43e/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:123946466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:176380358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:42267471987 (39.3 GiB) TX bytes:197116022761 (183.5 > > GiB) Interrupt:177 > > > > Andrew P. >=20 Actually vr0 and rl0 are on different boxes :) Andrew P.