From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 12:22:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343ED16A46D for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@boldra.com) Received: from looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F26E13C478 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@boldra.com) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (stgt-4dbdab35.pool.einsundeins.de [77.189.171.53]) by looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DB316EF12 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:22:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47B979A6.9040901@boldra.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:27:18 +0100 From: Boldra Organization: boldra.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47B94EAE.3050002@boldra.com> <47B9567F.2080803@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <47B9567F.2080803@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: network not performing - where to start? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:22:34 -0000 Thanks for your suggestions Erik, I had only been speed testing with smb. I just did a quick test with wget under cygwin and I'm still getting around 1.5MB/second, which is about the same as I get with smb. scp peaked at around 900KB/second, which also seems to suggest the hardware is only working at 10% capacity. Can you point me to a man page or something for your suggestion "use packet filtering statistics" ? Where do I start? Paul Boldra Erik Norgaard wrote: > Boldra wrote: > >> I think ifconfig -a is saying that the os thinks the card is 100Mbit: >> >> ed1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 >> inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> ether 00:a0:0c:40:32:a3 >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) >> status: active >> >> >> So my questions are: >> How do I check the network performance from within freebsd? >> What other tools can I use to check for network problems? >> How can I check the network card is configured and working correctly? > > It is not irrelevant which protocol you use to copy large files. Some > protocols has less overhead. Also, you may experience better > performance between bsd stations, if you can try set up two bsd > stations to test performance on different protocols, ftp, http, tftp, > whatever. > > I think the best I have had on a 10Mbit/s was 1Mbyte/s - that is about > 80% is actually effective payload. Another thing you can do to get > more correct numbers is to use the packet filtering statistics. > > Cheers, Erik > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >