Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 18:08:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Poor Router performance Message-ID: <199504040108.SAA02998@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 95 09:45:00 PDT." <m0rvpFM-0004pjC@romulus.reed.edu>
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> I'm trying to use FreeBSD 2.0 as a router between a Novell network >and a set of Sun systems. We've been using a DOS-based 286 with KA9Q in >the past, but want to switch over. The FreeBSD system is a 25MHz 386, and >seems to work fine, but FTP performance is very slow - about 3Kb per second. >FTPing to either side of the router gets me 80Kb and 30Kb rates, respectively. >The system has a blistering 5M of memory and is using a pair of DLink >NE2000-type 16-bit boards (DE-220). I built the kernel with the following: > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x320 net irq 11 vector edintr > device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector edintr > >Can anyone think of why the performance is poor? At one point I ran it >with a floppy-disk based version of FreeBSD-1.4 using a DLink and a SMC >Elite 16 board and I think the performance was better (but don't quote me >on that!). And running KA9Q on this system shows good performance. The router should be capable of 600K+/sec. I'm interested in finding out why the performance is so low. Give me a call sometime and I'll help diagnose the problem. 666-4431. -DG
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