Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:46:56 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network device slowdown? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981020224656.007b76b0@firebat.wolfepub.com>
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Greetings, I was wondering if there are any known problems with the ed driver? I had a Kingston 10/100 PCI ethernet card based on a DEC chipset in my 2.2.6-R box and the performance was terrible (<1Mbs). I switched to a plain ISA 10Mbs ethernet card and the performance shot through the roof. I figured that the driver for DEC based cards was probably not mature yet, so I stuck with the ISA ethernet. The machine has been running for 123 days now and there seems to be a slow down in the ethernet performance again. I tried a 5MB ftp transfer from another machine on the same hub and it took over 2 minutes! That same transfer from another machine takes about 9 seconds. I know I should upgrade to 2.2.7-R but the machine is remote and I have never done an update, I usually just do a complete install from CD or the Net. I can't afford the machine to be off-line, so I'm stuck with 2.2.6-R for a while. Machine specifics: Intel Venus MB, 180MHz P-Pro, 128MB RAM, 2G-IDE, 2940UW, 4G-SCSI, CDROM, Plain ISA ethernet (used to be Kingston 10/100 PCI). Thanks, Matthew Hagerty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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