Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 05:02:25 +0100
From:      "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
To:        "Eric Rosenberry" <ericr@dsl-only.net>, "Ilya" <mail@krel.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lan speed
Message-ID:  <03e001c0f22b$5a8735e0$0200a8c0@mark2>
References:  <GLEOKLAKEIBLAAKKFHEIMEANCFAA.ericr@dsl-only.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Whooops! thanks for that.....I'll change mine now :-) weird.

to set it to half duplex, am I right in thinking you need a 

-mediaopt full-duplex

in place of

mediaopt full-duplex

in ifconfig_rl0 in rc.conf?

thanks,
mark

> Umm, if he is using a hub setting the card to full-duplex will cause
> horrible amounts of collisions.  They should be half duplex.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Hughes
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:00 PM
> To: Ilya; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: lan speed
> 
> > Hi. I have win2k box with 100mb card in it, and a Freebsd dual homed box
> > with 100mb on local interface and 10mb on internet side.
> > when transfering files from win2k to freebsd i get max 60kb/s throughput,
> > and 3com 10/100 hub shows load of only 10%.
> > what can be done to acchive a higher rate? thank you
> 
> Make sure you set the media type rather than allowing auto-select (the
> default).
> 
> In your rc.conf on the freeBSD box, you need, in the ifconfig_xl0 line,
> 
> media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
> 
> and in the properties for your network card on win2k you also should make
> sure it's set to
> 100mb and full duplex rather than auto detect. Although it IS connecting at
> 100mb, the
> auto detect routines use TONS of bandwidth to check which transport they
> should be using,
> cutting the rate right down.
> 
> I did this with my 10Mbps cards, and the rate went from 150kbps to 7.5mbps.



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?03e001c0f22b$5a8735e0$0200a8c0>