Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 04:12:34 From: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com> To: rlucas@solidcomputing.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD limiting bandwith? Message-ID: <F129QpQq5pneeFUtLch000000bd@hotmail.com>
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>seem to be limiting upload speed or something. When testing with a 5.3 mb >file from websites hosted on each I was getting 80 kb/sec from the win2k >machine which is about right for the line but would only get a max of >50 kb/sec from the BSD machines. > >All 3 machines are using the same type of nic, Realtek 10/100 pci >cards. Is there some type of hidden setting I'm missing that is limiting >the bandwith? Or is it perhaps a driver issue with the card? Any >suggestions or ideas are appreciated. Have you looked at the duplex & speed settings of the Realtek cards under FreeBSD? To do that firstly check out what the settings are by issuing this command: ifconfig rl0 (that's assuming the Realtek card device is rl0) Then you can look at how the card is currently configured, have a look at what modes are supported and change those modes. To change the media modes of the network card: ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP or ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX To change the duplex modes of the network card: ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex or ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex I'm pretty sure you can only do half-duplex in 10Mb/s mode with this card so only worry about duplex in 100Mb/s mode. Of course if you find something that works you can put the appropriate media and mediaopt commands in the ifconfig_rl0 line in /etc/rc.conf to keep the settings across reboots. Let us know how you go. Regards Aaron Hill _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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