Re: iMac and FreeBSD performance problems

2003-10-31 Thread Bill Vermillion
Even though on Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:01 Keith Mitchell realized that everything he says should be taken cum grano salis, he unhesitatingly continued with this missive: > I'm trying to figure out why my FreeBSD box and my iMac are having > trouble communicating at 100 Mbs full-duplex. > To

Re: iMac and FreeBSD performance problems

2003-10-31 Thread Keith Mitchell
Anthony Anderberg wrote: the iMac to a 10BT hub instead of the ethernet switch then everything seems to work fine as well. The iMac can talk to all the other equipment without a problem when its connected to the ethernet switch. Likewise Sounds like a duplex mis-match, which is especially

Re: iMac and FreeBSD performance problems

2003-10-31 Thread Anthony Anderberg
> the iMac to a 10BT hub instead of the ethernet switch then everything > seems to work fine as well. The iMac can talk to all the other equipment > without a problem when its connected to the ethernet switch. Likewise Sounds like a duplex mis-match, which is especially common with unmanaged sw

Re: iMac and FreeBSD performance problems

2003-10-30 Thread Barney Wolff
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:01:17AM -0500, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > What I see is extremely slow transfers (FTP/TFTP at least) from the > FreeBSD machines to the iMac. The reverse direction (from the iMac to > the FreeBSD machiens work fine). If this isn't bad enough, if I connect > the iMac to