From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 22:06:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D278016A41C for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:06:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from webmaster@it-is-warlock.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F2743D1F for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 22:06:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from webmaster@it-is-warlock.de) Received: from i53879497.versanet.de [83.135.148.151] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1DcsOk44z6-0005iM; Tue, 31 May 2005 00:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: <429B8E55.6090104@it-is-warlock.de> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 00:06:13 +0200 From: Sebastian Ahndorf User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Hartland References: <20050529221024.4fu2p4yjusk04k0g@mail.banot.net> <20050529212705.GA64753@xor.obsecurity.org> <1117447400.5384.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050530104928.GB79877@sr.se> <1117465224.9934.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <429B44BD.7070806@pp.nic.fi><20050530191843.GA82875@xor.obsecurity.org> <429B7DF6.8040704@it-is-warlock.de> <00de01c5655f$08a4e550$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <00de01c5655f$08a4e550$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:f6735843f9bf6ba0163a8f6be18b2a15 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:06:18 -0000 Steven Hartland wrote: > > Quite a few 100tx nic / switch combinations misbehave when both > sides are not set to the same be that 100fdx or auto sense. I've actually > never seen a problem with 100tx autoneg as long as both ends had > it selected and there wasn't a cable problem. > I was talking about cheap switches (and that's pretty the same with adsl-routers). There is usually no way to configure (at the switch) which speed/duplex should be used and if you set your nic to a specific mode, the switch doesn't mention this. So it keeps on sending it's autosensepakets and waits for response. It get's timeouts and thats what pulls down the networkperformance. So you have to set your nic to autosense and you'll get a better performance, cause the nic responces to autosense. > Steve Good night, Sebastian