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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Strange FTP Behavior Date: 23 Dec 1996 17:59:58 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <59mhau$6a3@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <32BB6B44.6034@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva1.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32936 In <32BB6B44.6034@ix.netcom.com>, "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> writes: >I have two machines, > x486 486-66, 20MB, 1GB, Intel Etherexpress > 486-clone FreeBSD 2.1.0 from CDROM (and WINDOZE NT) > tinb 486-50, 20MB, 200MB, NE2000-ish interface > Texas Instruments 4000 Notebook (486-DX2-50) > >I tested ftp after completing the installation and found: > > ftp tinb/FreeBSD -> x486/FreeBSD ~4KB/sec > ftp tinb/FreeBSD -> x486/WINNT ~1.6e3 KB/sec. > >I am using private IP's, x486=192.168.1.1 and tinb=192.168.1.2 >both with netmask of 0xfffffc00. Route tables look OK. The only >difference I have found between x486 and tinb is in ifconfig. > >The flags SIMPLEX and MULTICAST are set on tinb, but, not on x486. >Can this be the problem? I cannot seem to locate a mechanism to If you examine the driver source for the Intel Eitherexpress you will see that MULTICAST hasn't been implemented! ;-) In any case, the EE16 won't support sustained high-volume traffic, the driver is too fragile. Short bursts are OK. Your card is probably configured wrong, see the installation notes on configuring the Intel card. Also, these cards are known to have unpredictable behavior under FreeBSD. I never had a problem with them, but there have been lots of posts from people who did.