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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:16:21 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Incredibly slow network performance
Message-ID:  <20020626231621.GD68946@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <20020626224543.66567.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020626224543.66567.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:45:43PM -0700, twig les wrote:

> My NIC is an old 3com 3c589c on a p3-700 Toshiba Tecra
> 8100 with 256MB.  Top says that the CPU and mem aren't
> caught in some runaway problem, so I'm guessing that I
> missed some config option somewhere.  Does anyone know
> where to start troubleshooting this?

Eliminate the obvious first: try using a different, known good, network
cable.  Try using a different port on your switch or hub.

Make sure that the card and your network infrastructure agree on
whether you're running 10 or 100Mbit and Full or Half duplex.  3c589
uses the ep driver which only supports 10baseT, so check that your
switch is showing the correct 10Mb, half duplex setting.

	Matthew

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