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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:56 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8139 with rl(4) driver -> Poor performance
Message-ID:  <20081117003856.GB50872@cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <d05df8620811161501y4a503c29vf9432b265452d4ea@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d05df8620811161501y4a503c29vf9432b265452d4ea@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:01:58PM -0500, Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
 > Hello,
 >      I recently built a new system to use as a home server. This system has
 > an Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200, 4GB RAM and an Asus P5KPL-CM motherboard
 > which has an Atheros L1E network adapter, not yet supported on FreeBSD. For

ale(4) was committed to HEAD. If you're using lastest stable/7
see the following URL.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/README

 > now, I use a Realtek 8139 PCI adapter that uses the rl(4) driver, but the
 > upload performances are really poor (under 1 MB/sec). Is there any way to
 > improve the performance with this driver? This adapter was in a Linux system
 > with a Pentium III processor before and I could upload/download at around 10
 > MB/sec in my local network with no problem at all.
 > 

There was a bus_dma(9) bug in rl(4) and it was fixed in HEAD.
How about rl(4) in HEAD? I guess it would build with minor
modification.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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