From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 18:30:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4BC216A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tms3@fsklaw.com) Received: from thor-new.fsklaw.com (adsl-64-174-116-34.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.174.116.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB2343D5E for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tms3@fsklaw.com) Received: from [192.168.62.67] by thor-new.fsklaw.com with SMTP (EHLO [192.168.62.67]) (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.8.1)); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:31:33 -0700 Message-ID: <434C04A7.7090001@fsklaw.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:29:59 -0700 From: "Thomas M. Skeren III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20050502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ArGoMail-Authenticated: tms3 Subject: Strange Network Performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:30:04 -0000 I have 6 5.3 and 3 5.4 for servers. The servers provide Samba/LDAP, DHCP, Natting, IPSec (for vlan tunnels). One, and only one server behaves very oddly. If I do a transfer to the other BSD server there (LDAP Master and DNS), I get full wire speed: tp> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'open.tar.bz2'. ftp> 66% |***************************************************************************** | 355 MB 7.56 MB/s ftp> However when I issue a get command I get this: ftp> get open.tar.bz2 local: open.tar.bz2 remote: open.tar.bz2 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||61238|) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'open.tar.bz2' (557269784 bytes). 0% | | 2849 KB 105.55 KB/s 1:25:28 ETA The data transfer rate is about 93.5% of these speeds for smb transfers. No other server exhibits this behavior. I'm really puzzeled. Here's an ifconfig -a: camarillo# ifconfig -a fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=b inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast xx.xx.xx.xx inet6 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0e:0c:50:b1:fa media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active sk0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fe14:92b7%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:14:85:14:92:b7 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 gif0: flags=8051 mtu 1280 tunnel inet xx.xx.xx.xx --> xx.xx.xx.xx inet6 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxgif0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 inet 192.168.0.1 --> 192.168.64.1 netmask 0xffffff00 camarillo# Any suggestions as to wtf is up would be appreciated. TMS III