Problem with HTTP traffic (very slow)

[Mark Sergeant]

Problem solved. It ended up being a cisco router with a bad gbic module.

Cheers,

Mark

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:45, Alex Soares de Moura wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Have noticed if there's any inconsistent full-duplex/half-duplex setting on
> nics
> and switch ports? See if the settings are the same on the 2 boxes.
> 
> Recently we've been tottaly confused about vey new Dell boxes pluggled into
> Dell siwtches experiencing *very* poor performance running
> FBSD-4.{7,8}-STABLE
> and after lots of struggle we've solved the problem setting their nics to
> 'auto'
> instead of the original fixed setting 100baseTX Full-duplex. Go figure...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alex
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant at snsonline.net>
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:35 AM
> Subject: Problem with HTTP traffic (very slow)
> 
> 
> > I have two machines running 4.8-RELEASE ... both sitting on the same
> > switch, same hardware, same everything really.
> >
> > One gets 200k/s using wget / curl / w3m to a http address the other gets
> > 6k/s to the same address. On the slow http machine I get 200k/s via scp
> > or ftp to the same address it's just web traffic that is slow (note web
> > traffic to all other locations is 4 - 6k/s as well). I've recompiled
> > curl, w3m, wget and all their dependancies and still no luck so I can
> > only assume something is broken with http traffic on this machine.
> >
> > The only difference between these two machines is one is an nfs server
> > and the other an nfs client to that machine.
> >
> > Has anyone experienced this before / got any pointers on where I should
> > look, which deity I should pray to etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- 
> > Mark Sergeant <msergeant at snsonline.net>
> > SNSOnline Technical Services
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