Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:58:35 -0700 From: Mike Heasley <mheasley@hmc.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mattapayne@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Slow connection speed FBSD->FBSD on same LAN?--Problem Solved! Message-ID: <20010513125835.A44803@pandora.inter.nut> In-Reply-To: <bulk.96483.20010502233929@hub.freebsd.org>; from owner-freebsd-questions-digest@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:39:29PM -0700 References: <bulk.96483.20010502233929@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi there - I noticed that I had exactly the same problem and finally found a fix (skip to the end if you're just interested in that). But in the process of discovering it, I saw a lot of weird behavior... I have a pair of FreeBSD 4.3 boxes on my home network - old pentium as a firewall, and my main desktop machine. I got a pair of SMC 1211TX cards from Ebay and put them in the machines, both connected to the internal network (the firewall has an old ISA card connected to my DSL modem). Didn't notice any real problems - they talk to each other fine via ssh and downloading off the net over DSL goes at normal speeds (the desktop has to go through the firewall, thus accessing both cards). I first noticed a problem when I got horribly slow speeds transferring files from my Mac to the desktop using netatalk. I figured it was a problem with the Mac or netatalk, but was pulling my hair out trying to isolate it. The Mac also had no problems downloading from the internet going through the firewall and its SMC card. Then I tried a file transfer from the desktop to the firewall - about 2.5 megs took over 12 minutes! So clearly it wasn't just the Mac or netatalk. That's when I checked this list and found this thread. I put a cheap PCI NE2000 clone in the desktop and suddenly transfers between that and the Mac were back to normal. But there was another comment in this thread that perhaps the cards weren't talking at the same speed as the hub, so I did a "man rl" and found some options that could be set via ifconfig. I changed the appropriate line in /etc/rc.conf to read: ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP" (added the media... part) and viola! Everything was back to normal. So try that (or man rl for other options if your hub isn't 10baseT and half duplex like mine). I put the SMC back in the desktop so both machines are running fine with them now. The weird thing was that downloads over DSL worked the whole time, so I didn't notice it right away. I guess maybe the DSL goes slow enough (mine maxes out around 90 kbytes/sec) that the problem didn't come up? Strange. Anyway, I hope this helps, and thanks for this thread to point me in the right direction! Mike On Thu, 03 May 2001, matt payne wrote: > Yeah, I guess so. I did just move, though, so that may have had something > to do with it. Moisture, banging around, etc. Oh well, learn something new > everyday. > > Matt > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Doug Young wrote: > > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:43:55 +1000 > > To: <mattapayne@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> > > Subject: Re: Slow connection speed FBSD->FBSD on same LAN?--Problem > > Solved! > > > > so was the problem an SMC network card ?? ..... if so thats highly > > unusual > > from my experience with them, but I guess even the best components act up > > at > > times To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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