By your description, it is almost certainly a packet loss problem... a cabling issue or a switch issue most likely. Try doing large pings, like this, and see if you get hicups:
bsdbox# ping -i 0.1 -s 3000 linuxbox -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:59:52AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: :> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, matthew c. mead wrote: : :> > I have a Linux box and FreeBSD box sitting on a 100Mbit ethernet segment :> > that cannot seem to talk to one another faster than 150K/s. I've been :> > using scp, ftp, http, to test this. : :> And you've done tests in both directions, or just in one? : :Both. : :> Could you try using a non-TCP performance measurement tool of some sort? :> I.e., some sort of UDP throughput test. Because of your comment about the :> two boxes talking to windows fine, it sounds likely to be a TCP :> interaction, but it would be useful to check and see. : :I didn't get around to it before I started looking at :hardware/driver. I dropped a 3c905 into the Linux box and things :improved. I grabbed a new ethernet card elsewhere today and it :works just fine. : :> I've CC'd Matt Dillon because he's fixed a number of subtle TCP bugs of :> this sort in the past and can probably provide some debugging guidance. : :I think it's the Linux driver. Sorry for the false alert. This would :be a fun one to figure out if it were tcp stack interactions. :( : : :-matt : :-- :matthew c. mead : :http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message