Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:53:14 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: TOPCAT CONSULTING <topcat@sk.sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: very slow NIC Message-ID: <20030611062314.GL40071@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3EE6736B.82597481@sk.sympatico.ca> References: <3EE6736B.82597481@sk.sympatico.ca>
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--UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 18:10:19 -0600, TOPCAT CONSULTING wrote: > I have an ethernet card that just doesn't seem to be performing well in > both directions (in and out)....when I access this NIC from another > machine on the LAN, file transfer is extremely fast, but when I use this > machine to access another machine on the LAN, I can barely get 10 kb/sec > out of it! > > Anyway dmesg.boot reports the card as: > > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci0.13.0 > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:20:18:88:96:47 > rl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > > So, is full-duplexing not turned on or something?=20 As it says: > (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > How do I turn full-duplexing on? Or maybe that's not the problem? If your LAN is 100 Mb/s, it's definitely a problem. Try: # ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5srRIubykFB6QiMRAoAKAKCDiWA2uu3VxBG8B+xJc1uKcea25gCeK6Lv IIkka3aFbCZvl6lxNQ2AWEg= =2qPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9--
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