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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:16:07 +0800
From:      Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very slow Ethernet performance
Message-ID:  <3B7CE0D7.2050209@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <000901c126bd$edf33ce0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>

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 I suggest you should manuallu set your Ethernet card to the appropriate 
speed and duplex mode  which synchronize with your router or switch of 
the LAN port . It may improve the performance in term of the speed  .


Kory Hamzeh wrote:

>I just brought up a 4.3-RELEASE system and I'm getting very poor Ethernet
>performance. I've attached the dmesg file at the end of this message so give
>an idea of the system config. Essential, it is a 800MHZ P3 system with 256M
>ram, two UDMA 100 IDE drives, a SMC EZNET (SMC1121TX) PCI Ethernet Card, and
>a PCI Video card. Pings from machines on the same net take about half a
>second. traceroute doesn't show any network loops. netstat doesn't show any
>errors. Other systems on the network are getting very reasonable
>performance.
>
>oamcs:/var/log #39 ifconfig rl0
>rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet 199.33.206.5 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 199.33.206.63
>        inet6 fe80::2e0:29ff:fe85:9620%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>        ether 00:e0:29:85:96:20
>        media: autoselect (none) status: active
>        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
>10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
>
>Any ideas on what might be going on? Where can I start looking?
>
>Thanks,
>Kory
>
>dmesg files follows:
>Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
>    jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (804.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
>
>Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,
>PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>real memory  = 268349440 (262060K bytes)
>avail memory = 256897024 (250876K bytes)
>Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044d000.
>Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
>md0: Malloc disk
>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>npx0: INT 16 interface
>pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
>pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=1131)> at device 1.0 on pci0
>pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
>pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=244e)> at device 30.0 on pci0
>pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
>rl0: <Accton MPX 5030/5038 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
>0xf3800000-0xf38000ff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci2
>rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:29:85:96:20
>miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
>rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
>rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x0002) at 11.0 irq 9
>pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1102, dev=0x7002) at 11.1
>isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=8086 device=2440)> at device 31.0 on pci0
>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>atapci0: <Intel ICH2 ATA100 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 31.1 on
>pci0
>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 5 at device
>31.2 on pci0
>uhci0: (New UHCI DeviceId=0x24428086)
>usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0
>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0: (0x24428086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 10
>uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 9 at device
>31.4 on pci0
>uhci1: (New UHCI DeviceId=0x24448086)
>usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1
>usb1: USB revision 1.0
>uhub1: (0x24448086) UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>uhub2: ALCOR Generic USB Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
>uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
>fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>kbd0 at atkbd0
>psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>sio0: type 16550A
>sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>sio1: type 16550A
>ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>ad0: 29314MB <IBM-DTLA-307030> [59560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
>ad1: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045> [89355/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100
>acd0: CD-RW <LITE-ON LTR-0841> at ata1-master using PIO4
>ast0: TAPE <OnStream DI-30> at ata1-slave using PIO4
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>
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