From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 6:51: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B61B14C13 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:50:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zort@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au) Received: from outmail.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA07541 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:50:49 +1100 Received: from penrithcity.nsw.gov.au ([203.41.13.40]) by outmail.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:58:11 +1000 Message-ID: <3882FC3E.ECA3B03F@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:25:50 +1100 From: Dean Hamstead Organization: B.O.N.G. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.15pre2 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: collisions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG heres the scenario p 120, 32 megs ram, 600mb, 8 gig hhd's dfe530-tx running freebsd 3.2 release intel inbuisness 8 port 10/100 switch generic 8 port hub various windows / unix clients ----- ok the server sends out files via nfs, smb and ftp and is plugged into the switch the hub is connected to the switch and most clients are connected to the hub data transfer between the freebsd server and clients is incredibly slow due to incredible amounts of collisions. transfer from other servers on the same switch is not affected by the same problem. i have tried 2 other network cards with the same results, a 3c509btx and a amd pcinet (lnc) both half-duplex and full-duplex have the same results, the kernel has packet filtering on and runs dhcpd help! Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message