From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 23:23:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FD337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE96C43F85 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0A3CA527A7; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:53:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:53:14 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: TOPCAT CONSULTING Message-ID: <20030611062314.GL40071@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3EE6736B.82597481@sk.sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE6736B.82597481@sk.sympatico.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: very slow NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:23:19 -0000 --UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 18:10:19 -0600, TOPCAT CONSULTING wrote: > I have an ethernet card that just doesn't seem to be performing well in > both directions (in and out)....when I access this NIC from another > machine on the LAN, file transfer is extremely fast, but when I use this > machine to access another machine on the LAN, I can barely get 10 kb/sec > out of it! > > Anyway dmesg.boot reports the card as: > > rl0: rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci0.13.0 > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:20:18:88:96:47 > rl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > > So, is full-duplexing not turned on or something?=20 As it says: > (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > How do I turn full-duplexing on? Or maybe that's not the problem? If your LAN is 100 Mb/s, it's definitely a problem. Try: # ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5srRIubykFB6QiMRAoAKAKCDiWA2uu3VxBG8B+xJc1uKcea25gCeK6Lv IIkka3aFbCZvl6lxNQ2AWEg= =2qPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UK1lfQXsnwKrySH9--