From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 7:36:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4C437B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E5143E3B for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:36:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from heater.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F524251EA; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:36:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: Problems with the xl driver or 3Com cards? From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: Matt Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 15 Aug 2002 09:34:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1029404076.260.2.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 02:29, Matt Johnson wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > You really have more issues than that one card. A pair of reasonably > > fast PC's on a 100tx network should get from 9-10.5M/sec transfer > > rates. Your other boxes only doing 5 is a problem as well. I've seen > > this issue over and over again with boxes that were reinstalled, > > network > > cards, ports, cables, switches and anything else we could think of > > swapped around. I joke that some ATX cases are only rated for certain > > 100tx transfer rates. > > And another note, I'm fairly inclined to think it's the switch itself. > The 100mbps and full-duplex LEDs are on for all the nodes that support > it, and the switch was brand new, and a fairly "high end" model > (Linksys Workgroup Switch, 8 port). I would hope that networking > hardware wouldn't be half-way defective right out of the box like > that... > > Matt I've gone os far as to reinstall all the machines on a network thinking it much be an OS issue. I was direct connecting them with crossover cables and everything to eliminate hardware, swapped nics, you name it, I did it. Nothing made a bit of difference. My advice: If you need the performance buy Intel Ethernetexpress cards. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message