Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:01:39 +1000 From: "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: "douglas jacobsen" <djacobse@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: __REALLY__ slow tcp communications... Message-ID: <01bdec05$7fd68a00$a71a1acb@gretchen>
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I had a similar problem, until I noticed that my cards were recognised as "SIMPLEX" at boot time, but set to DUPLEX in default factory config. I dug out the MS-DOS config disk for the cards and set the cards on FreeBSD *AND* W95 boxes to SIMPLEX, and saw speed go from 18 k/sec to 500 k/sec. >On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, douglas jacobsen wrote: >> i've got a freebsd 3.0-BETA box playing the role of server/gateway on my >> LAN. i need to run Samba, but when the client systems connect, the >> transfer rates plummet... (using tcp/ip).. the nics in the system are >> realtek 8029s. > >There are some hints scattered about the samba faq on tuning. >I think the biggest improvement comes from adding > >socket options = TCP_NODELAY > >to your smb.conf > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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