First off I might suggest MTU discovery, however, you shouldn't get that
far if MTU is the problem.  Might I suggest grabbing a quick tcpdump of
the failing session (i.e. the ftp to ftp.gnu.org)?  That might
help.  Although it might also be a hardware problem, and I can't help you
on that one, sorry.

-Jon Lindgren
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Cliff Crawford wrote:

> Hello,
> I have two ethernet cards, an ISA NE2000+ and a PCI RealTek 8029 (NE2000
> compatible).  I'm running 1.4.1, and am connected via RoadRunner (i.e.
> configured by dhcp).  I'm getting intermittent problems with either
> one--basically some web and ftp sites will be extremely slow (like, 100
> bytes a second) while others will load just fine.  For example, from
> ftp.eecs.umich.edu I can get a transfer rate of about 80k/s, while
> ftp.gnu.org frequently stalls out while downloading anything (if I can
> get that far--it takes about ten minutes just to display the motd).  Also,
> the POP server and news server which I usually use are on the same subnet,
> but fetchmail takes something like five minutes to download three
> messages, then times out, while I can read newsgroups just fine.  I know
> this is a problem with my NetBSD setup and not with RoadRunner because
> when I reboot the machine into FreeBSD everything works just fine.
> 
> I included the relevant output from dmesg and ifconfig below.  Does
> anyone have any idea what's going wrong?
> 
> ne2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: RealTek 8029 Ethernet
> ne2: 10base2, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, auto, default auto
> ne2: Ethernet address 52:54:00:ed:62:f5
> ne2: interrupting at irq 11
> 
> ne1 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 10
> ne1: NE2000 Ethernet
> ne1: Ethernet address 00:80:29:ed:ec:30
> 
> ne2: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         address: 52:54:00:ed:62:f5
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (10base2)
> ne1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         address: 00:80:29:ed:ec:30
>         media: Ethernet manual
>         inet 24.24.11.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 24.24.11.255
> 
> 
> -- 
> cliff crawford   http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/
> -><-             "You and your stupid orthography" -- Mark
>