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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:21:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD too fast?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980130171956.2815O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801302100.PAA05548@crocodile.vale.com>

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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Hal Snyder wrote:

> We just had a few moments of excitement when several production
> servers became slow to respond and collisions escalated.
> 
> Turns out someone was transferring a large file between two high end
> FreeBSD systems, and this saturated the 10-BaseT segment they share
> with several other hosts.

:-)

> Switching hub and/or fast ether are in the cards, but I wonder, is
> there a way - sysctl? bandwidth limits? - to keep this from happening
> in the mean time?

Upgrade that 10Mbit link or demote those people to Windoze boxes?  :-) 
Yes, fast Pentiums running FreeBSD can saturate 10 megabit links. 

www.etinc.com has some bandwidth limiting software, I believe.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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