From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 28 12:48:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03526 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mynet.ml.org (pc-19628.on.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.74.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03521 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ihuang@mynet.ml.org) Received: from localhost (ihuang@localhost) by mynet.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA00483; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:36:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:36:47 -0500 (EST) From: Ian Huang To: Mark Murray cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VX driver in current acting up? In-Reply-To: <199803282009.WAA07410@greenpeace.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm having the similar problem with my 3c905 on a 2.2.6-STABLE box. The outgoing transfer is having no problem (~1MB/sec) but the incoming connection is extremely slow at ~200K/sec. I'll pop in a SMC ethernet card and see if the connection improves. On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > Hi > > I have been getting funny behaviour from the VX driver (I have a > 3com 3c900). > > Occaisionally (randomly) the card/driver goes into "slow mode", and > gives ridiculously slow respose on my local ethernet: > > PING gratis.grondar.za (196.7.18.133): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=989.080 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=980.119 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=970.066 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=960.154 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=950.969 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=940.152 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=930.114 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=920.143 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=910.234 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=900.115 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=890.098 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=880.065 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=870.060 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=860.088 ms > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=850.742 ms > > Notice how the times slowly improve by 10ms per echo? Strange. > > Does anyone else see this? At work we have a machine running this > card and this driver(?) under RELENG_2_2 (STABLE) and there are no > problems. > > The only fix I know of is a reboot. (ifconfig vx0 up; ifconfig vx0 down > does not work). > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message