From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 29 6:29:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR002.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0887C37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 06:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leclercn@videotron.ca) Received: from atom.quanta.ca ([24.203.90.137]) by VL-MS-MR002.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GE3MTA05.BXS; Tue, 29 May 2001 09:29:34 -0400 Received: from videotron.ca ([192.168.56.40]) by atom.quanta.ca (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7) with ESMTP id f4TDTc4W015208; Tue, 29 May 2001 09:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B13A442.9020309@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:29:38 -0400 From: Normand Leclerc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bert Driehuis Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip_divert blues (was natd blues) References: <3B1059DD.8090505@videotron.ca> <3B124382.3C8C0412@nl.compuware.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000600000803040903070102" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------000600000803040903070102 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You are right! Realtek cards are really bad nics... I changed it for a 3com and the problem is gone. Thanks for the info! Normand Leclerc leclercn@videotron.ca Bert Driehuis wrote: > Normand Leclerc wrote: > >> The nat machine is a P90 with 32megs of ram. It has a 3com 3B905BTX >> and a cheaper nic connected to the cable modem (realtek). > > > The RealTek cards are so incredibly bad that all bets are off. You may > want to try to eliminate that from the equation. > > Years ago, similar issues existed with NFS over cheap ISA ethernet > cards. The faster you made the system, the slower the connection became. > > Cheers, > > -- Bert > --------------000600000803040903070102 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit    You are right!  Realtek cards are really bad nics...  I changed it for a 3com and the problem is gone.

   Thanks for the info!

Normand Leclerc
leclercn@videotron.ca

Bert Driehuis wrote:
Normand Leclerc wrote:

   The nat machine is a P90 with 32megs of ram.  It has a 3com 3B905BTX
and a cheaper nic connected to the cable modem (realtek).

The RealTek cards are so incredibly bad that all bets are off. You may
want to try to eliminate that from the equation.

Years ago, similar issues existed with NFS over cheap ISA ethernet
cards. The faster you made the system, the slower the connection became.

Cheers,

			-- Bert


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