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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
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Subject: Re: poor performance Solaris<->Freebsd 2.2.6 BETA march 12th
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> Pro 200Mhz, w/ 2940 SCSI and vx0 ethernet interface manually set to 100
> Mbps, on a 100 Mbps LAN. Last week (maybe since upgrading 2.2.5 Stable
...
> 12621935 bytes sent in 13 seconds (9.6e+02 Kbytes/s)
...
> 12621935 bytes sent in 13.76 seconds (895.56 Kbytes/s)
> 
> Also quite alright.

  Both of these measurements are kinda slow for fast ethernet, but typical
for 10mbs.  Are you sure you are using 100BASET here?

> One thing I'm supecting is that I don't use full duplex with the

  If the duplex setting (half or full) is mismatched between the card and
the switch (assuming you are using a switch) you will get very bad
performance.  The settings must match.

Tom


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