Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 1996 07:37:36 +1000
From:      davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To:        koshy@india.hp.com (A JOSEPH KOSHY)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: High packet loss for the `ed' driver?
Message-ID:  <199610252137.HAA28246@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610251500.AA078165642@fakir.india.hp.com>; from A JOSEPH KOSHY on Oct 25, 1996 20:00:41 %2B0500
References:  <199610251500.AA078165642@fakir.india.hp.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
A JOSEPH KOSHY writes:

> This is behaviour that I'm seeing in the recent (1-3 months) -current code:
> 
> `ping -f' to any machine on the local ethernet runs out of buffer space very
> rapidly on my FreeBSD-current machine (2-3 seconds).

FWIW:

davidn@sdev[~]# ping -f unique
PING unique.usn.blaze.net.au (203.17.53.17): 56 data bytes
..............................................................................^C
--- unique.usn.blaze.net.au ping statistics ---
1077468 packets transmitted, 1077380 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.228/6.959/79.719 ms

> The machine is a P5-90 with an HP PC Lan+ ethernet card (using the
> `ed' driver).

Same driver, using 8-bit WD8003EBT's on both systems over coax.

FreeBSD sdev.usn.blaze.net.au 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Thu Oct 24 14:35:24 EST 1996
     davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/SDEV  i386

-current is only two days old, completed "make world" without incident,
built new kernels and rebooted both machines. Apart from the previously
mentioned pdksh core dump and running "AJ" malloc options, no other
problems to report so far.

> If you are using an NE2k compatible card, have you by any chance seen
> similar packet losses?  I'm wondering if its a generic `ed' problem
> or something that specific to the HP PC Lan code.

Good luck,
David


David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet
davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199610252137.HAA28246>