Bandwidth Problems with Freebsd 5.x

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:54, ptitoliv wrote:
> Mathieu CHATEAU a écrit :
> >try this:
> >ping -c 1000 -s 1500 IP_TO_PING
> >
> >wait for the 1000 ping to go trough. You should not have more than
> >0,5% of loss (is the servers aren't overload). If it's more or equal
> >than 0,5%, it comes from the network (cables or switches fault).
> >Each host would be in 100 full (via autoselect to be sure the conf
> > is ok on the switch).
>
> I made the tests on the two boxes => 0 % packet loss.
>
> I man an other interesting test. I try to transfert between the BSD
> Box and a server located at home behind my 1MB/s ADSL Line. Here are
> the results :
>
> FreeBSD box => Workstation at home : 300 kB/s
> Debian box on the same network  => Workstation at home : 950 kB/s.
>
> This test confirms cleraly that there is a problem with the BSD, I
> guess.
>
> Could it be a bug from the VR driver ?
>
> Regards,
> Ptitoliv
> _______________________________________________

Not hardly. I'll bet that 950kB/s for the Debian box was the peak 
download speed and it didn't maintain it through the entire download. 

Don