Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:40:36 GMT From: groggy@iname.com To: "Kerr, Greg" <akua@mailandnews.com> Subject: 8139 ethernet cards Message-ID: <200103021740.RAA32102@en26.groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>
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i read that these cards supposedly suck :) however - i got 3 i am trying to wrestle with. these are "generic" 8139 cards. FBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i am losing alot of packets in a 3 machine network with a 10mb/s hub. not only that, but sometimes, the delays when telnetting around are either super long, or so long that the connection could be considered locked up (over 24 hours). there are no errors, or any noticable problems in the configurations. i can't imagine, even though the card sucks, that this is the best that can be done ... the cards work fine in Windows (?) and i lose no packets and have no lock-ups or "in the mud" performance levels. i would like to know if this is the best performance i can get out of these cards with FBSD, maybe "why" the performance levels can't be raised from "unusable", and if i have to tell this customer that he needs to trash all his cards and spend 100's on new cards ... ? please reply off list as well, thank you. # dmesg | grep rl0 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x10 int a irq 11 on pci0.8.0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:48:54:8b:a0:7d rl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) as you can see, alot of packets get dropped, and this is with no other traffic at all. these machines are 900MHz+. # ping 192.168.0.26 PING 192.168.0.26 (192.168.0.26): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.151 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.119 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.112 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.115 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.115 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.114 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.121 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=0.114 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=0.113 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.26: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=0.124 ms ^C --- 192.168.0.26 ping statistics --- 20 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 50% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.112/0.120/0.151/0.011 ms To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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