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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:03:06 -0700
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        future <future.products@12move.nl>
Cc:        Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>, Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very slow Ethernet performance
Message-ID:  <20010817140306.C53647@rand.tgd.net>
In-Reply-To: <005b01c1275f$c1148b50$680d2ed5@ftp>; from "future.products@12move.nl" on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at = 11:01:14PM
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> have the same problem , but how do i set it up manualy

	It depends on your network card.  Try ifconfig -m to see what=20
your nic supports.  For fxp, this is what I add to the end of all of my=20
rc.conf entries:

media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

	-sc
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> greetingz franky
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong" <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
> To: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Very slow Ethernet performance
>=20
>=20
> > I suggest you should manuallu set your Ethernet card to the appropriate
> > speed and duplex mode  which synchronize with your router or switch of
> > the LAN port . It may improve the performance in term of the speed  .
> >
> >
> > Kory Hamzeh wrote:
> >
> > >I just brought up a 4.3-RELEASE system and I'm getting very poor Ether=
net
> > >performance. I've attached the dmesg file at the end of this message so
> give
> > >an idea of the system config. Essential, it is a 800MHZ P3 system with
> 256M
> > >ram, two UDMA 100 IDE drives, a SMC EZNET (SMC1121TX) PCI Ethernet Car=
d,
> and
> > >a PCI Video card. Pings from machines on the same net take about half a
> > >second. traceroute doesn't show any network loops. netstat doesn't show
> any
> > >errors. Other systems on the network are getting very reasonable
> > >performance.
> > >
> > >oamcs:/var/log #39 ifconfig rl0
> > >rl0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > >        inet 199.33.206.5 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 199.33.206.63
> > >        inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe85:9620%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> > >        ether 00:e0:29:85:96:20
> > >        media: autoselect (none) status: active
> > >        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
> > >10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
> > >
> > >Any ideas on what might be going on? Where can I start looking?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Kory
> > >
> > >dmesg files follows:
> > >Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
> > >Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 19=
94
> > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > >FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
> > >    jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> > >Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> > >CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (804.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > >  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x683  Stepping =3D 3
> > >
> >
> >Features=3D0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA=
,CMOV
> ,
> > >PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
> > >real memory  =3D 268349440 (262060K bytes)
> > >avail memory =3D 256897024 (250876K bytes)
> > >Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044d000.
> > >Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> > >md0: Malloc disk
> > >npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> > >npx0: INT 16 interface
> > >pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> > >pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> > >pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=3D8086 device=3D1131)> at device 1.0=
 on
> pci0
> > >pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> > >pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
> > >pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=3D8086 device=3D244e)> at device 30.=
0 on
> pci0
> > >pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> > >rl0: <Accton MPX 5030/5038 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
> > >0xf3800000-0xf38000ff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci2
> > >rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:29:85:96:20
> > >miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
> > >rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
> > >rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> > >pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=3D0x1102, dev=3D0x0002) at 11.0 irq 9
> > >pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=3D0x1102, dev=3D0x7002) at 11.1
> > >isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=3D8086 device=3D2440)> at device 31.=
0 on
> pci0
> > >isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> > >atapci0: <Intel ICH2 ATA100 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 3=
1.1
> on
> > >pci0
> > >ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> > >ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> > >uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 5 at dev=
ice
> > >31.2 on pci0
> > >uhci0: (New UHCI DeviceId=3D0x24428086)
> > >usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0
> > >usb0: USB revision 1.0
> > >uhub0: (0x24428086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> > >uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > >pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=3D0x8086, dev=3D0x2443) at 31.3 irq 10
> > >uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 9 at dev=
ice
> > >31.4 on pci0
> > >uhci1: (New UHCI DeviceId=3D0x24448086)
> > >usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1
> > >usb1: USB revision 1.0
> > >uhub1: (0x24448086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> > >uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> > >uhub2: ALCOR Generic USB Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
> > >uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
> > >fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on i=
sa0
> > >fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> > >fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> > >atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> > >atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> > >kbd0 at atkbd0
> > >psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> > >psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> > >vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on i=
sa0
> > >sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> > >sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x300>
> > >sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> > >sio0: type 16550A
> > >sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> > >sio1: type 16550A
> > >ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
> > >ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > >ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
> > >plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> > >lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> > >lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> > >ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> > >ad0: 29314MB <IBM-DTLA-307030> [59560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
> > >ad1: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045> [89355/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100
> > >acd0: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-0841> at ata1-master using PIO4
> > >ast0: TAPE <OnStream DI-30> at ata1-slave using PIO4
> > >Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> > >
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