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Subject: Re: sk interface (Marvell 88E8001) sluggish?
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On May 19, 2005 05:37 am, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> thanks. None of the open source drivers I know seem to know that rev.
> 0x9 at this time. Really looks strange. Also I could only find
> references of that with A8V baords.
>
> The two postings on Free/NetBSD lists talking about autnoeg/speed
> problems. Could you check this?
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-October/002215.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2005/04/17/0004.html

Thanks for the links, it seems many are having the problem across different MB 
(which are all Asus) on all BSDs.  I also found that forcing speed instead of 
letting ifconfig on auto fixes part of the problem.

In fact:
clk01a# ifconfig -m sk0
sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::211:d8ff:fe44:15f4%sk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        ether 00:11:d8:44:15:f4
        media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (100baseTX 
<full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 1000baseTX
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT/UTP

forcing it on 100baseTX (full duplex) :

ifconfig sk0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

And I get no more delays before connection, speed is about 93%(RX) and 
63%(TX). which is a great improvement.  

>From DSLReport.
Your download speed : 6162099 bps, or 6017 kbps.
A 752.2 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 511465 bps, or 499 kbps.

This is a start and I suggest that everyone with a sk0 and that problem try 
forcing it on 100mbps and do some test. I don't want to be just lucky :).

Thanks,
Nicolas.