which still doesn't explain why my setup, which has a static IP, is so
slow. I'm waiting for the Networking howto to load and go through /etc and
make sure I've got everything set up right, didn't miss anything, etc.

At 8:30 AM -0800 3/18/2000, Erik Huizing wrote:
> Success! I've got my NetBSD Centris hooked up and running at decent
>speeds now. Downloaded some packages from ftp.netbsd.org at 75-150k/sec so
>I'm happy. My machine isn't setup to do ipf/NAT yet, but this is an
>encouraging first step.
>
>The only thing different that I've done is started with a fresh
>installation of etc.tgz, then added some stuff to dhclient.conf:
>script "/etc/dhclient-script";
>
>interface "ae0" {
>  send host-name "cs495859-a";
>}
>
>and rc.conf:
>dhclient=YES
>dhclient_flags="ae0"
>
>and everything is working fine now. What really stumps me is that the only
>real difference (aside from ipf/ipnat being off) is the dhclient script
>doesn't have an alias section.
>
>On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Matthew Navarre wrote:
>
>> yeah, at this point i'm inclined to think the problem is due to some weird
>> interaction between @home and NetBSD. I did some testing with connections
>> from the netBSD box straight to the @home network, and well, it took a good
>> fifteen minutes for lynx to finish loading slashdot, and around the same
>> amount of time to download MacInTouch. Obviously this level of performance
>> is not acceptable, and, considering I routinely saw transfer rates
>> >200k/second to certain reasonably fast sites with both the Debian and The
>> MacOS 8.5 boxen, I would tend to think NetBSD is at least part of the
>> problem. This being said, I don't know what to even try to fix it(or where
>> to start,which means it's time to hunker down with tcpdump and the relevant
>> FMs). I tend to agree with Erik that just getting acceptable performance
>> from an @home is the first step and then we can figure out where to go from
>> there. comments, suggestions, and especially data points from others
>> running NetBSD on @home are apprecited
>>
>
>Erik Huizing			4th year Computer Science
>huizing@cpsc.ucalgary.ca	Office: MS 142 Ph: 220-5768
>http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~huizing


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