Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:45:17 -0500 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: TENEBRAE <tenebrae@flash.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Internal network transfers Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000108184517.01635130@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000108091716.00a46410@pop.flash.net> References: <4.2.2.20000108085051.00a46430@pop.flash.net>
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At 09:19 01/08/2000 -0600, TENEBRAE wrote: >At 09:00 AM 1/8/00 -0600, I wrote: >>I can send files _to_ the BSD machine just fine, averaging about 1100+ >>KB/s, but when I try to pull them back to the Windows box, my transfer >>rates are extremely slow, as it's currently sending it over at about 3KB/s. > >One bit of information that I excluded, was that I put another Windows box >on the network, and the two Windows machines transferred files back and >forth at 1100+ KB/s, so the hub, CAT5's, etc seem to be working >fine. Thanks again. > -W.P. > > In my experience this kind of grossly asymmetric speed often indicates a duplex problem (ie - autonegotiation failed), most likely on the FreeBSD box. Assuming the network interface on your FreeBSD machine is called 'pn0', try something like the following: ifconfig pn0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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