From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 23:47:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04041 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04036 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00466; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:47:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Blair Schmittel cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD box talking slowly In-Reply-To: <199607160550.XAA24313@strech.cyber-naut.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try to split your lines at about column 75. Thanks. On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote: > 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. I wonder if this is a routing or ARP lookup problem. Try running a tcpdump on the slow machine while pinging it. And try replacing the cabling. Also check that nothing else is on the 3com's interrupt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major