From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 6:54:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C4237B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA25373; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <3B1E3694.B8A41B58@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:56:36 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Parvu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C589B slow References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Parvu schrieb: > > Hi all, > > I have a laptop running FreeBSD 4.3 - RELEASE > The ep0 is a 3C589B PCMCIA NIC which is running really slow in > performance. > > ping to our internal Nameserver get results of 2000ms , when under Windows > or NetBSD the same NIC reports speeds in 1ms or so :( > > Now, are any specific notes regarding 3C589B/FreeBSD model since I have > not got > any problems with D model. > ping to local ip address is ok and fast. traceroute is also delayed a lot. > > Some ideas ? You are probably connected to a hub, but the NIC is working in full duplex mode. That's a no-no: read the amnpage for your ethernet driver to learn how to force the board to half duplex mode. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message