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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2005 14:27:05 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Imobach Gonz??lez Sosa <imobachgs@banot.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts
Message-ID:  <20050529212705.GA64753@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050529221024.4fu2p4yjusk04k0g@mail.banot.net>
References:  <20050529221024.4fu2p4yjusk04k0g@mail.banot.net>

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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:10:24PM +0100, Imobach Gonz??lez Sosa wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> Ok, I'm new to FreeBSD (for second time :)) and I'm getting an strange
> behaviour. I don't know if you could help me, but I've to try. I've read =
the
> handbook, manpages and search google for a while, but I don't know how to
> solve it.
>=20
> I have some machines in my network, connected to Internet with and ADSL l=
ine.
> All those machines have GNU/Linux systems (and a laptop with Windows). I'=
ve
> installed FreeBSD recently (5.4) on my desktop machine and it performs ba=
dly
> in the net.
>=20
> I'll explain: I've got a lot of timeouts using fetch, firefox, links, ftp=
...
> etc. I thought that could be a hardware problem, but I connected this box=
 and
> my laptop to a hub and, using ethereal (on the laptop), I looked the traf=
fic
> searching for troubles.
>=20
> And that's what I saw: sometimes, my FreeBSD box sends a package and rece=
ive
> no answer. Then, it have to wait for timeout and try again... and again...
> Sometimes the other peer finally answer, and sometimes not. DNS, HTTP, FT=
P...
> nothing seems to work properly.
>=20
> Pretty amazing, huh? Any idea? Something I must know about bsd's TCP/IP? =
I'm
> gonna cry... :(

This kind of thing is often caused by duplex mismatch on your NIC.

Kris

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