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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:39:31 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@tincture.us>
To:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Network Bandwidth Issues
Message-ID:  <2ACC3C06-B414-11D8-9D9B-003065C7DFE8@tincture.us>
In-Reply-To: <1086120145.485.482.camel@zircon>
References:  <1086120145.485.482.camel@zircon>

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On Jun 1, 2004, at 13:02, Joe Kelsey wrote:

> I have experienced severe network bandwidth issues on all versions of
> -stable since 4.8, and yet I have never seen any discussion of these
> issues.
>
> The way I see these issues has come from having side-by-side boxes on
> the same 100M switch have wildly different bandwidth when talking to
> various remote sites.  For instance, downloading ports, the newer box
> (post 4.8) regularly suffers under 1M bandwidth, while the 4.7 box
> merrily trots along at maximum speed.  This seems somehow unrelated to
> the actual network hardware, as I have seen the same thing with fxp, de
> and rl cards.
>
> Has anyone explored network bandwidth issues in -stable recently?  What
> can I do to work out these problems?
>

First make sure the duplex setting is the same on the NIC and on the 
switch.



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