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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