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Subject: Re: Question: Why ain't I getting gigabit speed?
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, John Nielsen wrote:

> 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..

Yes, although those rl(4) cards are rare now.  The newer re(4) cards are 
better, and built into many motherboards.