From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 21:44: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D304D37B41C for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.105] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.10) id A37F4C70112; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:16:15 -0500 Message-ID: <024e01c21d89$25e3b400$69e2910c@fbccarthage.com> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "twig les" , , References: <20020626235245.22972.qmail@web10108.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Incredibly slow network performance Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:17:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Twig Les wrote: >As for the routing...I can no longer >reach my default gateway (I could before, not sure >what's broke now) and all my hosts are on the same >subnet since I'm at home. I have one server that is unhappy with routes unless I run routed on it. It worked for a long time w/o this being necessary...but I'm not at all sure that this is your issue...as you say, you're pretty good at routes. Still, your comment here makes you go "hmm..." Best of luck, let us know about the fix... KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: "twig les" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:52 PM Subject: RE: Incredibly slow network performance > OK, I got three replies so far and they are all good, > but I should have included more info. This > card/cable/pcmcia slot are known-good because my > laptop dual-boots to Win2k and everything works fine, > in fact I just downloaded something at 400k in > windoze. That pretty much eliminates the routing and > switching issues too, which I know aren't the problem > because Cisco stuff is my core competency (yes, I'm > actually good at *something* ;). > > This is an upgrade from Mandrache 8.1 to Free4.6 so I > know that this card works fine in the Nix world > (pretty old card, I use it for no-headache > compatibility). As for the routing...I can no longer > reach my default gateway (I could before, not sure > what's broke now) and all my hosts are on the same > subnet since I'm at home. > > BTW, for sanity's sake I forced the card and the > switch port to 10/half and didn't get anywhere. > > Sigh. > > > --- Jon Noack wrote: > > > My NIC is an old 3com 3c589c on a p3-700 Toshiba > > Tecra > > > 8100 with 256MB. Top says that the CPU and mem > > aren't > > > caught in some runaway problem, so I'm guessing > > that I > > > missed some config option somewhere. Does anyone > > know > > > where to start troubleshooting this? > > Sounds like the driver is configuring the card > > wrong. > > > > 1) Try running "ifconfig ep0 media 10baseT/UTP" to > > force the card > > to 10Mbps half-duplex. If this works, add "media > > 10baseT/UTP" > > to your ifconfig_ep0 line in /etc/rc.conf to make > > it permanent. > > > > 2) Try a different hub/switch. > > > > Jon > > > ===== > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Only fools have all the answers. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message