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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:00:36 -0700
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question: Why ain't I getting gigabit speed?
Message-ID:  <C8583AD0-9D65-476C-8416-A6B952679A0E@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <8112.1360454540@tristatelogic.com>
References:  <8112.1360454540@tristatelogic.com>

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On Feb 9, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> =
wrote:

> P.S.  While I appreciate all the friendly advice people here have =
given
> me, i.e. to go with a card based around some non-Realtek chip, I have =
to
> say that up until now I have always and consistantly had -zero- =
problems
> with the many other Realtek-based 10/100 cards that I have owned and =
used.

A bit OT, but I would say that this is _because_ of the FreeBSD driver =
(rl, also by Bill Paul). Some of the hardware deficiencies documented in =
the manpage and in comments in the if_rl.c are almost comical..




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