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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:03:45 +0200
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gigabit woes
Message-ID:  <20010612190345.A20019@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3B2647E0.E40A2339@gactr.uga.edu>; from Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:48:32PM -0400
References:  <3B2647E0.E40A2339@gactr.uga.edu>

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:48:32PM -0400, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> we've tried both an intel (device xw) gig card
> as well as a 3com (device ti) card in a 4.3-STABLE
> box. the other end of the line is an extreme black
> diamond gig port. both ends are autoconfigured
> and the stats on the extreme show it's autoconfigured
> at 1000. so everything looks good. we are not seeing
> packet loss, either. unfortunately, our transfer
> rates are barely reaching 3MB/s.

Measured how ?

Traffic transfered to/from which host ?

Which protocol ?

Which HW do you use on the FreeBSD machine

> are there some options
> on the FreeBSD side we need to fiddle with to get this
> thing to do decent performance?

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1

And permanent

echo "tcp_extensions=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf
echo "net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

/Jesper

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