Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 07:26:24 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
To:        Kyle Peterson <kyle.peterson@sk.sympatico.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I need lots of help with lnc driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.OS2.3.95.1001223070828.190C-100000@CENTRAL>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c06bcb$c58f2640$64d2010a@rgle.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Kyle Peterson wrote:

{...}

> I've done further tests with the lnc driver, my external internet
> speed through my nat box is 1.5mpbs, but my speed internally is no more that
> 25KB/s.  Now this is really strange, what can possibly cause this?  There is

It isn't directly relevant, but I saw similar problems with a
Racal-Interlan NI6510 card (ISA DMA lnc-type card) under Linux some time
ago - in fact the slower the host the better the throughput :-|
(386-33=~250kB/s; 486-100=~50kB/s). Note that this was mostly a problem
with connections via a router - connections from the same segment weren't
as bad, but I could never get transfer rates as good as with a SMC EtherEZ
:-(. Driver problem most likely in this case.  BTW, the machines involved
were Compaq Prolinea desktops.

If you can, I'd suggest ditching the internal NIC and using an fxp
supported NIC.

> also some settings in my BIOS that specify what OS i'm using.  I can set it
> to win NT, Unixware, linux, sco, open server.  What should I use for
> freeBSD?  Also, I'm using FreeBSD 4.2-Release.  Thank you for any info.

ISTR that Unixware has been found to work well in these Compaq BIOSen.

> ----- Original Message -----
{...}

--
Andrew I MacIntyre                     "These thoughts are mine alone..."
E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au    (work) | Snail: PO Box 370
        andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au  (play) |        Belconnen  ACT  2616
        andymac@pcug.org.au           (play2) |        Australia



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.OS2.3.95.1001223070828.190C-100000>