From owner-freebsd-net Sat Dec 21 14: 7:44 2002 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 05ADD37B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pipenetworks.com (cartman.pipenetworks.com [202.4.251.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D10543EDA for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:07:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pipenetworks.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by pipenetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id gBLM3aY18778; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:03:36 +1000 From: Steve Baxter Received: from internal.pipenetworks.com (internal.pipenetworks.com [10.10.10.1]) by pipenetworks.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id gBLM3ZV18745; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:03:36 +1000 Received: from internal (internal [10.10.10.1]) by internal.pipenetworks.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id gBLMGSc23493; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:16:28 +1000 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 08:16:28 +1000 (EST) To: "matthew c. mead" Cc: Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD poor network performance In-Reply-To: <20021221165745.A67089@goof.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-scanner: nil by mouth Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check out the duplex setting on the ethernet ports. Use 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -I dev -w 1' on FreeBSD and 'ifconfig', 'mii-tool' and 'cat /proc/net/dev' on Linux Any sort of errors may lead to this sort of behaviour. You need to match the hosts to the switch port they are connected to. SB > I have a Linux box and FreeBSD box sitting on a 100Mbit ethernet > segment that cannot seem to talk to one another faster than > 150K/s. I've been using scp, ftp, http, to test this. > > A Windows box on the same segment can send/receive at 6MB/s with > either box, but for some reason the FreeBSD box and Linux box > are having some weird interaction. My guess is I need to tune > one or the other's tcp stack. Any hints? Anyone seen this? > > FreeBSD box is FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2. Linux box is Gentoo Linux > 1.4rc1 with kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r10. Windows box is Windows > 2000 sp3. > > Thanks in advance for any help... I'm out of ideas. > > > -matt > > -- Stephen Baxter Director - PIPE Networks phone : 07 3220 1100/ 0417 818 695 fax : 07 3220 1800 ______________________________________ PIPE Networks/IX Services Australia disclaimer The above email should be read in conjunction with our standard disclaimer/terms which can be found at : http://www.pipenetworks.com/docs/disclaimer.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message