Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:17:42 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor network performance Message-ID: <20001016131741.Q272@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001016220651.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>; from u98jobj@stud.hh.se on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:06:51PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.001016220651.u98jobj@stud.hh.se>
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* Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se> [001016 13:07] wrote: > I've set up a p133 as a firewall/gateway with 2 NIC's one for outside > traffic and one for internal traffic, the internal NIC is a 3com 905B > using the xl driver. It connects to another 905B over crossover cable to > my windows machine. When doing ftp transfers between the 2 internal boxes > performances is poor at the best, 202kB/sec. I've forced both nics to > 100baseTX full-duplex but to no avail, the speed doesn't differ at all > from 10baseT/UTP half-duplex or any combination there of. > > I'm running NAT with rl0 as the natd_interface. > > Can anyone give me some hints as to what to look for? It's possible that the actual limit is in the disk bandwidth, if you are ftp'ing files you may want to attempt to do a transfer without touching disk (remote file 'foo' local file '/dev/null'). Also you should know that the rl cards are junk. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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