From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 20:28:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4139216A4CF for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:28:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249D443D45 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:28:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AB9F1C5C; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00682-03; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93589F1C5A; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:28:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean McNeil To: Daniel Eriksson In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-B5OdE6+tfLZZAqudNvue" Message-Id: <1097353701.1204.0.camel@server> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:28:21 -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: re0 failures at 1Gb vs. 100Mb X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:28:25 -0000 --=-B5OdE6+tfLZZAqudNvue Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:09, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Sean McNeil wrote: >=20 > > I have a strange problem that I have with my network that is=20 > > related to the output rate of my re0. >=20 > I have a similar problem, but I haven't reported it before because I wasn= 't > sure it was the fault of the NIC. >=20 > No matter what I do, single connection output rate (TCP) from the RealTek= is > erratic and the average is well below expectations when it operates at > 1Gbit. If I force it to 100Mbit (either through ifconfig, or by placing a > cheap 100Mbit switch in between it and GigE switch) the average speed goe= s > up quite a bit due to a much more stable and consistently high single > connection throughput. >=20 > I have not done much testing of this, but I thought it would be useful to > know that others are having issues too. I was just about to look into polling mode. Have you tried it? Does it make a difference? Sean --=-B5OdE6+tfLZZAqudNvue Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBaEnlyQsGN30uGE4RAjItAJ4htUF0Vai7ZwFXmHoHYSk8T+qrUACgujDD XGN4cQYztml5yVgzl1KQXwk= =yMWT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-B5OdE6+tfLZZAqudNvue--