From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 3: 4: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF9C37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 03:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptldme-mls2.maine.rr.com (ptldme-mls2.maine.rr.com [24.93.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AAD43E42 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 03:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mattj@maine.rr.com) Received: from deimos.local. (ptd-24-198-34-128.maine.rr.com [24.198.34.128]) by ptldme-mls2.maine.rr.com (8.11.0/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id g7F2Tgb03245; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:29:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:29:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Problems with the xl driver or 3Com cards? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net From: Matt Johnson In-Reply-To: <1029358787.337.20.camel@heater.vladsempire.net> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > You really have more issues than that one card. A pair of reasonably > fast PC's on a 100tx network should get from 9-10.5M/sec transfer > rates. Your other boxes only doing 5 is a problem as well. I've seen > this issue over and over again with boxes that were reinstalled, > network > cards, ports, cables, switches and anything else we could think of > swapped around. I joke that some ATX cases are only rated for certain > 100tx transfer rates. And another note, I'm fairly inclined to think it's the switch itself. The 100mbps and full-duplex LEDs are on for all the nodes that support it, and the switch was brand new, and a fairly "high end" model (Linksys Workgroup Switch, 8 port). I would hope that networking hardware wouldn't be half-way defective right out of the box like that... Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message