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From: Blair Schmittel <blair@cyber-naut.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD box talking slowly 
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At 12:18 AM 7/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>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.


That's not the problem..  Get this, if I let ping run, each ping decreases
in time by 10ms.  It starts at about 170ms, then goes to about 10ms after
several pings.  After 10ms, it jumps up to 1,000ms.  It still talks slow.  I
checked the IRQ and the card matches the kernel, I disabled every device
which used IRQ 10 also, nothing seems to help...

Thanks,
Blair