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Date:      Mon, 02 Dec 2002 03:15:22 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?
Message-ID:  <3DEB40CA.85F833EF@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212020006350.1744-100000@root.org> <3DEB2786.6EDA2C1@mindspring.com> <20021202110453.GA906@raggedclown.net>

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Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:27:34AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > [ ... bad throughput on bad NICs ... ]
> 
> Mmmm. I use these RTL cheapo nics. I accept the fact they have a bad
> reputation. However I have used them for some time, and they have
> behaved impeccably. I have noticed no change in throughput on 5.0
> either, and since I have downloaded loads off stuff which comes through
> my firewall and then via the LAN to the 5.0 test machine I think I would
> have noticed if it was slower than normal.
> Having said that I have not checked the throughput, but then nothing has
> happened to make me want to check it. I run 4-7 Stable updated at least
> once a week, and the latest patched 5.0 from a few days ago.

You may want to check it.  You can at least confirm whether his
problem is his alone, or if it's shared by others.  I suspect
that it will be specific to him, actually, given other factors
(i.e. it might be specifically an rl0 <-> rl0 only problem, etc.).


> The network also runs through a fairly cheapo switch.

It could be a duplex problem, but none of that code is different
from 4.7, and he says it works there, dso that's not going to be
it.

I expect that it's his specific cards from a specific vendor,
and the only one who will be able to find the change that causes
his problem is him (he's the only one complaining about it, at
this point).

-- Terry

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