From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 6:46:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from daemon.kingsqueak.org (cc737825-a.etntwn1.nj.home.com [65.8.90.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B55A37B43C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 06:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drmoreau@kingsqueak.org) Received: (from drmoreau@localhost) by daemon.kingsqueak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f36Dk6H26703 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:46:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from drmoreau) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:46:06 -0400 From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD limiting bandwith? Message-ID: <20010406094606.A26560@daemon.kingsqueak.org> References: <200104060614.f366EGp90742@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> <001b01c0be6e$bce55500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001b01c0be6e$bce55500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:53:59AM -0700 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Uptime: 11 days X-URL: http://www.kingsqueak.org/ X-Accept-Language: en X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ted Mittelstaedt [010406 03:55]: > I've dealt with these cards too, and what I've found is > that the card often won't properly autoprobe the Ethernet > hub. It's common for the card to go into 10Mbt, full duplex > with an older Ethernet hub that will only support half-duplex. > I'll second that, hard configure to whatever mode/media you are using, I have seen easily 30% performance hits from leaving rtl8139's in auto mode, and not just on FreeBSD, but obsd, linux etc. they don't handle auto well at all. Even 905b 3Com cards get an improvement when I've hard set the mode/media. -- __ ___ __ / //_(_)__ _http://www.kingsqueak.org _/ /__ / ,< / / _ \/ _ `(_-