Slow LAN with FreeBSD 3.4
Doug Hardie
it to monitor the transfers (a short one) and see where the time is going.
In article <8llep2$jmf$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, star...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I've got a FBSD 3.4 box on my cable modem, and it is providing natd,
> ftpd, and all kinds of other services. It's great, I get downloads of
> 200k/sec, no complaints. The system is a P133/64MB RAM. There's an
> NE2000 card on the cable modem, and a Kingston 10/100 card on the
> intranet side.
>
> On my LAN I have 2 Windoze boxes and one Mac G3 in addition to the
> server. They all get the same great download speeds off the internet.
> The problem is that ftp transfers *between* computers on the LAN are
> slower than they should be.
>
> Each computer on the LAN is 100bT, and I have a 100bT hub connecting
> everything together. Transfers between any 2 computers run at 1500k -
> 2500k / sec, or so. When I had a 10bT hub, we were looking at 200-
> 500k/sec.
>
> I have checked the configs on all the computers and I don't have any
> conflicting IP numbers or MAC addresses. If it's cable problems, it's
> all the cables, because transfers are the same speed between any 2 of
> the 4 machines.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
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> Matt Staroscik <KF6IYW> The time is now.
> star...@my-deja.com
>
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