From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 13:37:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA15506 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 13:37:58 -0800 Received: from loki.asymetrix.com (loki.asymetrix.com [192.147.176.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA15489 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 13:37:51 -0800 Received: from mailgate.asymetrix.com (mailgate.asymetrix.com [192.220.164.8]) by loki.asymetrix.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA27105 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 13:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by mailgate.asymetrix.com with Microsoft Mail id <309D2EE9@mailgate.asymetrix.com>; Sun, 05 Nov 95 13:38:49 PST From: Jeremy Noetzelman To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Incredibly slow ethernet performance. Date: Sun, 05 Nov 95 12:38:00 PST Message-ID: <309D2EE9@mailgate.asymetrix.com> Encoding: 16 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've got a 486/33 running FreeBSD 2.0.5, with a 3Com 3C509 Ethernet card. I'm connected to a 10MBit ethernet segment. I'm getting absolutely pitiful network performance. Ping times to my other desktop machine, a Windows NT box, on the same segment, are averaging about 1000ms. I can ping a SparcStation on a different segment with roughly the same response times. Ping times from my NT box to the Sparc are under 10ms. I've recompiled the kernal removing the SLIP/PPP stuff, and the drivers for devices I don't have, but that failed to improve performance any. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. Jeremy Noetzelman jeremyn@asymetrix.com