Bandwidth Troubleshooting

[Atom Powers]

On 5/15/06, Gunter Wambaugh <gunter at six-two.net> wrote:
> I have been having this off and on problem with my FreeBSD server for
> some time now, and I haven't been able to track down the cause.
> Bottom line:  network throughput between local boxes is around 200KB/
> s on a 100MBs network.  This will last for a few hours and then
> quietly return to the ~2MB/s I am used to.  (Speed according to
> scp).  I have used netstat -anf inet, sockstat -4, ps auxww, and top
> to see what is running, but I see nothing obvious.  I do see the
> occasional
>
> fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
> fxp0: link state changed to UP
>

Sounds to me like a physical layer problem to me: bad cable, bad
interface port, etc.

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