From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 17:21:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12083 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12060 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA02976; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 17:21:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Hal Snyder cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD too fast? In-Reply-To: <199801302100.PAA05548@crocodile.vale.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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