On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> Chan Yiu Wah writes:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I update my system, i386, a few days ago and found that the ftp is
> > incredible slow (19kb/s even low).  The network setup is as follow:-
> > 
> > 
> > +-----+
> > | HUB | 10/100M
> > +-----+
> >  |
> >  +-------> machine 1 (netbsd, i386) 10M
> >  |
> >  +-------> machine 2 (netbsd,i386) 10M
> > 
> > Any idea ?
> 
> Verify the speed and duplex of your interfaces on each machine.  It is
> possible that a driver was updated that is causing one NIC to try 100Mbit/s
> mode.
> Please provide more information about the ethernet adapters in each machine
> and the "HUB 10/100M" along with the dmesg output for the ethernet adapters.
> 
> I would assume your "HUB" is a 10/100 dual-speed hub?  Look at the output
> of 'ifconfig -ma' and verify your media settings for each card.

The problem was solved when I set one of the NIC to half-duplex.

Thanks.

Clarence

> 
> -Andrew
> 
> 
>