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To: Blair Schmittel <blair@strech.cyber-naut.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD box talking slowly 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:18:33 -0700
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>Hello;
>
>I have a FreeBSD 2.1R box with a 3Com card in it.  When I ping from it or to
> it, I get pathetic ping times, such as 549.06.  When I ping from another
> FreeBSD box to any other computer I get ping times of about 0.880.
>
>What would cause one of my boxes to ping so slowly?  When I telnet from it to
> another host, it is also very slow.  Both FreeBSD boxes are on the same
> ethernet, one works fine, while the other is horribly slow.  I've checked
> the calbes, etc. they seem to work fine.

   This can happen if you don't have the irq set correctly for the card. Check
that the irq setting in the kernel matches the setting on the card.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project