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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:39:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mark V Bermal <mbermal@ieng9.ucsd.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Slow network - ed driver, Realtek 8029
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.40.0212180938500.24793-100000@ieng9.ucsd.edu>

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Hello,

I'm having a problem with slow transfers to my FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE box
using a D-Link 528CT
(Realtek 8029 chipset). When I try to upload files to this machine from a
windowsXP box, I only
get about 30KB/s on the 10BaseT cat 5 network. This identical machine
previously was able to
receive transfers of 1000KB/s when it was running under windows 98. I'm
only getting 3% of the
windows receive performance.

My best guess is that this is a driver issue. I had possibly similar
problem with the same card under
win98. The issue was if you set the driver to full duplex when the card
hardware was not setup for
full duplex (it is capable of full duplex, but you need to tell the
hardware in some way), the transfer
rate would be ridiculously slow. I'm guessing this is a similar problem,
however, ifconfig shows:

	ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>

so I don't think it's the full/half-duplex problem.

I've googled the net and searched the mailing list, and found some others
have had similar problems
with the Realtek 8029, but I never found a solution.

Can anybody help here?

Mark V. Bermal



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