From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 18:44:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15777 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15772 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04954; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810010149.SAA04954@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Roger Hardiman cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8029 goes slow. 200k/second In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:26:26 BST." <360FAAA2.DEFDC4E9@cs.strath.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:49:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > I have a couple of PCI network cards with the Realtek 8029 chip. > (a no-name and a Genuis) > > Both these cards give 1000k / sec on all of my FreeBSD machines except > my new one. > > My new PII400 (BX chipset) gives just 200k / second on our lab network. > Perfect test conditions - no other network traffic. > New PC has 128 Megs of RAM, tried both AGP and PCI video card and runs > SNAP1998-0804. > > Any ideas what is going on? Start by defaulting your BIOS config; sounds like you may have really excessive I/O cycle delays enabled. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message