[ECOS] Low network throughput using DHCP

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:42:19PM +0800, Xavier wrote:
> There was only one NIC in my system.

The number of interfaces does not matter, it does it all the time.

> And there was no DHCP packet observed. The DHCP lease management
> thread had no activity either.

OK, that eliminates that then.

Which stack are you using? OpenBSD or Freebsd? Did you use template
net or new_net?
 
> By skimming over the captured packets of tcp_echo, nothing seems
> to be wrong for the DHCP version.

So there are no retransmits or lost packets? www.tcptrace.org is a
good tool for looking at TCP flows. Lost packets can have a big impact
on performance so first make sure this is not happening.

I suppose something else to check is the information returned from
DHCP. Is the netmask, default router, etc correct?

      Andrew

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