Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:16:55 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel <egravel@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing network performance Message-ID: <200009031711.KAA08750@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000903095545.23335E-100000@wireless.net> References: <200009030438.VAA24762@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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From uname -a: 4.1-RC #0: Mon Jul 17 Cable from hub to FreeBSD is a few feet long (2 or 3). Other cables are longer. For dealing with collisions, I've also seen it just go through collisions as if they were nothing, but that's mostly the exception when transfering a lot of stuff. The hub is a Linksys 5 port 10 Mb/s only. Had a 3Com but it didn't have enough ports. Cable from hub to FreeBSD may need changing though, but the connection is always alive... At 09:58 AM 9/3/00 -0700, Bernie Doehner wrote: >What version of FreeBSD are you running? How long is the cable plugged >into your 3c509's? I am wondering if either the cable or the hub is bad, >or the cable is so short, you aren't properly dealing with collisions. > >Bernie > >On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > >> I have a few machines in network. I'm using FreeBSD as my NAT/firewall. >> The NIC's in the FreeBSD box are 3c509B's. It's a P90 with 32 MB of >> RAM, and at least double of swap. Not running any caching/proxy servers, >> unless you consider NAT as a proxy. >> >> When exchanging files between my FreeBSD box and others on the >> network, and no Internet traffic, at maximum I've seen ~ 250 KB/s >> (not quite 2 Mb/s) transfer rates. When I get Internet traffic, the transfer >> rate goes way down if I also try to transfer files, and I get strange >> behaviour from the network. Traffic happens in bursts, which seem >> usually (but not always) disrupted by collisions, and usually there's >> a fairly long pause (a few seconds) before traffic starts again. I would >> think part of it has to do with the system being dual-homed, with two >> 509's, but I'm sure there has to be something to do to improve performance >> somehow. Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to >> react a little more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know >> just ask :) >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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