Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:11:02 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gigabit woes Message-ID: <20010612221102.C14059@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <3B265155.ACE63DEF@gactr.uga.edu>; from Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:28:53PM -0400 References: <3B2647E0.E40A2339@gactr.uga.edu> <20010612190345.A20019@skriver.dk> <3B265155.ACE63DEF@gactr.uga.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:28:53PM -0400, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > ok. currently in our dell poweredge 4350 there is a 3com 3c985b with > alteon-2 chipset plugged into a 64-bit pci slot. the kernel is built > to use the ti driver (with kernel NMBCLUSTERS set to 16896). > this is directly connected to a gig port on our extreme black diamond. > a basic ip test of ftping to a known functional gig interface > (an SGI origin 2000 also directly attached to our black diamond -- the > same test on this interface with a similar interface on a separate > module of this SGI box yields 12.183MB/s) yields a mere 2.37MB/s. > both the gig port on the black diamond and the nic in the freebsd box > are auto-negotiating. This could also be the speed of which you are writing the recieved data to disk, just a guess. Does the switch report any errors on this port ? Does FreeBSD ? /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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