From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 1 21:27:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25592 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25578 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sw@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.1.110.249]) by ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA23827; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:23:38 -0700 Message-ID: <36145574.ED1C7EB4@home.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 21:24:20 -0700 From: Sanjay Waghray Reply-To: sw@home.com Organization: Sanjay Waghray X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-AtHome0404 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LITE solutions CC: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extremely slow and strange connection with cable modem and 3c509 References: <361417F1.115469ED@cable.a2000.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What cable modem do you have? I have a cable modem set up with a 2.2.7 box and have been running fine for a long time now! In fact, I first installed 2.2.5 on this box via ftp from ftp.freebsd.org over the cable connection. I routinely get transfer rates (ftp from well connected sites) of 300-600 kbps. Until recently I'd been running on a 3C509 card; I have a Bay Networks LANCity modem. Please email me if you have any questions. Sanjay LITE solutions wrote: > > Hi ! > > I hope anyone can help me out with this one. > > I have an ethernet link to a cable modem with a 3com 3c509 card. > Under (blasted) windoze NT 4.0 workstation service pack 3 all works > really fine. > i get speeds up to 150 k / second tops and 30 k / second average. > > i installed FreeBSD version 2.2.6 (and a little later 2.2.7, but now > back to 2.2.6 again due to shared-with-friend CDROM reasons) > configured the network exactly like the NT configuration, but connection > speeds are EXTREMELY slow, just starting at about 300 b/s (yes BYTE / > second) rapidly dropping down to 100, 60, 20, STALLED (with netscape > communicator 4.04 port). > ping doesn't work at all, all packages are lost, and traceroute gives > hop times of over 1900 ms. > I bought the crab (TCP/IP network administration) book from O'Reilly's, > after digging through Greg Lehey's really comprehensive Complete > FreeBSD. I tried hard to figure out what is wrong, but i kind sort it > out. I would really like to jumpstart with the net so i can learn the > marvelous world of UNIX at much greater speed. > > If anyone can help me with this i would really jump in the air with > joy:) > > If more configuration stuff is needed to give a solutions, i would be > more than happy to provide this. > > thnx Lasse > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Lamminen, Lasse > LITE solutions > > Lamminen, Lasse > LITE solutions > HTML Mail > version:2.1 > Additional Information: > Last Name Lamminen > First Name Lasse To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message