From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 28 14: 6: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from modemcable127.61-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net (modemcable079.102-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.200.102.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4610D37B7C5 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 47895 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 21:05:40 -0000 Received: from patrak.local.mindstep.com (HELO PATRAK) (192.168.10.4) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 21:05:40 -0000 Message-ID: <035601bff8d7$93b06010$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: 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> <4.2.2.20000728113241.032cb3d8@mail.sentex.net> Subject: Re: Re[2]: outgoing IP is fscking slow... Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:05:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > >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 $18, I would make the > headache go away and just get a realtek NIC if they work for you. My observation with the rl driver on FreeBSD 4.x is that it does not detect properly that the network is running at 10baseT. You have to explicitely tell it to use 10base/T (using ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP) for it to work. Maybe this is something that is also broken for other drivers. This is especially annoying when you use DHCP because then the setting will be lost everytime DHCP feels like it needs to reconfigure the interface. See the output of ifconfig: media: autoselect (none) ... where it should say "media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP). bash-2.04$ ifconfig -a rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 atalk 9.50 range 0-65534 phase 2 broadcast 0.255 ether 00:50:ba:b0:96:d9 media: autoselect (none) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX If somebody has any idea on how to fix this problem, I am more than willing to lend a hand and spend time testing patches etc. Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message