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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD Date: 29 Nov 1995 00:38:31 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 54 Message-ID: <49ga27$g3i@tempis.quanta.com> References: <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net> <48aeb8$mmj@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> <48ilpg$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <48oj00$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <48u4t8$qvr@buffnet2.buffnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Steve Hovey (shovey@buffnet.net) wrote: : In article <48oj00$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) says: : > : >shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes: : >> I get tons of frame errors with : >> freebsd + WWW using trumpet winsock as the dos/netscape client on large : >> pages that I dont get with linux. However, I need the ip aliasing of : >> freebsd which is why i went with it. : > : >Did you ever consider that you might be about the only one who gets : >them? : > : >I assume you're using PPP (you didn't write it), so which version do : >you use on FreeBSD? Did you enable hardware flow control (on both : >sides, FreeBSD and the modem)? This rather smells like flow-control : >problems. : Im sorry - when Ive done FTP that pooped out it was an ethernet : connection. The trumpet users here connect to an annex 4000 for PPP. : Flow control is hardware. : I have one linux box with cern http which serves a web client who : has pages with large pictures of chinchillas. : I have one 2.0.5 BSD for other purpose cern httpd use. : The linux pages dont poop out, the bsd ones do. And it resembles the same : type of sudden stoppage that FTP does. : Im not knocking BSD - and I even wondered if its a situation of too : tight a set of time outs or something like that (Im NOT that up on : the low levels of tcp/ip to know what the problem could be really). : I would think it was me only my sco's and my linux dont do it. What net interface are you using. If the answer is the 3com 3c509/3c579 then there is you're broken frames. The buffers on these cards are too small for the performance of the network layer. Try a SMC Etherpower and see if the problem clears up. I am running FreeBSD over here with the apache server (which is a very good performer). I serve pages with lots of graphics and don't get any frame errors. Try www.zeiss.com, my home page isn't that hot. Cheers, Ross Walker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | /\/ | Ross S. W. Walker (rsww@quanta.com) | \/\ | | | |\ | finger rsww@quanta.com for PGP key _____________________________ | |___|/ | | Quanta Communications, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------