From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 16 10:35:34 2004 Return-Path: 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 89E5316A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:35:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5EF43D55 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:35:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (wojtek@localhost [IPv6:::1]) i6GAZRqj009894; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:35:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost)i6GAZQ1t003109; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:35:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:35:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: Andreas Ntaflos In-Reply-To: <20040716094038.GA2361@Pelargir.arda> Message-ID: References: <20040714161459.GA98907@Pelargir.arda> <20040716094038.GA2361@Pelargir.arda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 100Mbit/s LAN slow, TX only ~3MB/s (esp. file transfer) -- why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:35:34 -0000 > Thank you all who took time to reply! The problem really seems to be one > of the (or maybe even both, even the LinkSys!) NICs in the FreeBSD machines. > No wonder, the RealTek card is a cheap piece of crap (around EUR 6), I > am going to replace it with something more reliable. Any recommendations? > > Is there a card with Really Good(TM) driver implementation for FreeBSD? > Anything one would use in a production server (we use 3com cards almost > exclusively at work, although mostly in Linux servers)? once i've got cheap cards (20PLN=about 4 EUR) and bought 20 of them but i used only in NetBSD. but it seems fast (no problem to do 9MB/s on pentium 166 NFS) got detected like that tlp0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: ADMtek AN985 Ethernet, pass 1.1 tlp0: interrupting at irq 9 tlp0: Ethernet address 00:0a:cd:05:46:e2 ukphy0 at tlp0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface ukphy0: OUI 0x000749, model 0x0001, rev. 1 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto but it regularly gives tlp0: receive error: CRC error tlp0: receive error: CRC error tlp0: receive error: CRC error while except polluting logs it doesn't harm speed. i don't know if it's switch, NetBSD or something else this is good too (even better) but no more is available for now where i buy. sip0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: NatSemi DP83815 10/100 Ethernet, rev 00 sip0: interrupting at irq 12 sip0: Ethernet address 00:50:fc:62:24:a6 nsphyter0 at sip0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 media interface, rev. 1 nsphyter0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto