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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:00:29 +0000
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
From: Neil McGann <neil@neilmcgann.co.uk>
Subject: Re: UDMA and 100Mbit NIC speed issues
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At 15:32 25/01/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>I am curious what kind of setup you have. Since we are not seeing the same 
>transfer rate between FreeBSD machines, I have to assume you have 
>something configured differently than I do. An ifconfig on coral shows
>
>sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.17 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         ether 00:07:95:0b:0c:31
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>
>This is basically a default setup. The only difference on opal is the 
>internal ether address and IP.
>
>I have all of my systems hooked up to 10/100 baseT switches and are all 
>running full-duplex. They are on different floors. I have nomad and opal 
>on the same switch and coral is in the basement and on the second switch. 
>Nomad uses an Intel Pro 10/100+ and coral and opal are using the SiS-900 
>builtin NIC, which was just added to the 4.5 support.

ifconfig shows identical parameters to yours, except I have inet6 addresses 
too (it's an out-of-the-box stock config, I haven't really tweaked it much 
yet).

Does hw.atamodes show you definitely dma?

Neil


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