From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 0:30:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D79637B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeeland ([193.173.2.105]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA09621 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:30:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: <01C03D95.9AE69CC0.m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl> From: Michel Timmerman Reply-To: "m.timmerman@zeeland.arbounie.nl" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Speed? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:37:11 +0200 Organization: Arbo Unie X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >* Michel Timmerman [001023 01:00] wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD, >> >> I have got a question about the connection speed with FreeBSD. I recently >> installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto my Pentium II 233 system. The system is up and >> running and everything seems to work fine, but when I'm at school and do a >> telnet session to my FreeBSD system, which is connected to the internet via >> cable modem, the connection is very, very slow. I previously used Linux >> Slackware 7.1 and the connection was much faster. It probably has something >> to do with some configuration settings, or so I hope it does... >> >> I hope you can help me out here, or else I will be forced to uninstall >> FreeBSD because of the low connection speed. :( > Try flipping the duplex setting on your card, see the ifconfig manpage > for details. > -Alfred I looked at the man page but as far as I see it doesn't mention any duplex settings. I searched on the internet for ifconfig docs and found the option 'speed' must be used to set duplex settings. So I tried '# ifconfig ep1 speed 20' (20 = full duplex) But the system responds with 'ifconfig: speed: bad value'. Maybe I need a new version of ifconfig? This is the output of 'ifconfig ep1' : ep1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe12:e1d7%ep1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 212.92.72.168 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 212.92.79.255 ether 00:10:4b:12:e1:d7 media: 10baseT/UTP supported media: 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP ep1 is my cable provider nic. It is configured by DHCP. Michel Timmerman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message