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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!darwin.sura.net!wupost!gumby!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!help.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1: non-reciprical ftp performance. Message-ID: <michaelv.711664972@help.cc.iastate.edu> Keywords: 386bsd ftp networking Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <greg.711649876@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:42:52 GMT Lines: 25 In <greg.711649876@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) writes: > In a previous post, I complained of sluggish ftp performance (6-7 kb/sec). >I discovered later that I can ftp files to a sun sparcstation ipc and get >120-130 kb/sec. Ftping files from the same machine still yeilds only >6-7 kb/sec. This is quite repeatable. > I wonder if anyone has insight into this. I don't mind mucking about in >the kernal testing things out, but I am relativley inexperienced in this area >so I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. > > I am using an ne2000 on irq 9. I don't know if that is relevant. >Also, NFS is very slow and it tend to lose contact with the server and then >freeze up. Please remember when mucking that everything works *perfectly* on a WD8013EBT. I get the best performance I've ever seen out of my ethernet card with no problems whatsoever on ftp, nfs mounts, or telnet. So, look first at the driver for the ne2000. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon "Ignorance is bliss..." michaelv@iastate.edu -- Computer Engineering, Iowa State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------