Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:37:58 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Etherlink XL driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806133129.302e-100000@bright.ny.otec.com> In-Reply-To: <199808060425.VAA23145@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > using the first version of the driver posted on 100mb segement seemed to > > have not great performance. The admin here said he was able to get > > ~8megs/sec over the segment using Linux and 11megs/sec via Solaris, the > > FreeBSD driver was never over 4.5megs and averaged around 3-3.5. This is > > ftp transfers. It seems to grab a LOT of data, then "stall" then grab, > > stall over and over. > > Can you describe the system in which the card is installed? What kind > of processor and how fast is it? Well it's a PII-300, 128megs of RAM. > Make absolutely sure the 3Com and the hub/switch are operating in the > same mode. Use 'ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex' > to force a full-duplex link, or 'mediaopt half-duplex to force a > half-duplex link. will do later, it's kinda busy here at the moment. thank you, Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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