From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 28 8:40:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C9137B74A for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01424; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:40:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000728113241.032cb3d8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:35:03 -0400 To: Chris Pauly From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re[2]: outgoing IP is fscking slow... Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000729013119.00a89920@mail.csoft.net> References: <4.2.2.20000728091818.03db6d70@mail.sentex.net> <141681324352.20000728151722@buz.ch> <3981843A.8157C83C@mediaone.net> <13675259221.20000728133617@buz.ch> <3981843A.8157C83C@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:35 AM 7/29/2000 +1000, Chris Pauly wrote: >I found out not long ago that this also fixes a problem i have been having >with my vr0 card (D-Link DFE-530TX). > >Under 3.x there was no such problem however. Do you have any ideas what on >earth is making us go back to 10Mbps HD?! I used to run fine on 100Mbps FD >3 times over (installed 4.x, back to 3.x, etc, 3 times). Same cables. Same >nics. Same machine. 3.x performs excellent (11.5MB/s). 4.x runs like an >absolute dog. > >On the other hand, i have a rl0 card running fine at 100Mbps FD under 3.x >and 4.x. > >Something seems to be very randomly wrong with FreeBSD 4.x. I would _guess_ its a driver issue with the vr series under 4.x. I have not used that card series at all, so I dont know. Generally I use only the fxp (Intel) and the realtek for low end stuff. For $18, I would make the headache go away and just get a realtek NIC if they work for you. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message