From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 2 3:22:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C36E37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C22943E88 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0006.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.6] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18IoeJ-0004aA-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 03:22:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEB40CA.85F833EF@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 03:15:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? References: <3DEB2786.6EDA2C1@mindspring.com> <20021202110453.GA906@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:27:34AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > [ ... bad throughput on bad NICs ... ] > > Mmmm. I use these RTL cheapo nics. I accept the fact they have a bad > reputation. However I have used them for some time, and they have > behaved impeccably. I have noticed no change in throughput on 5.0 > either, and since I have downloaded loads off stuff which comes through > my firewall and then via the LAN to the 5.0 test machine I think I would > have noticed if it was slower than normal. > Having said that I have not checked the throughput, but then nothing has > happened to make me want to check it. I run 4-7 Stable updated at least > once a week, and the latest patched 5.0 from a few days ago. You may want to check it. You can at least confirm whether his problem is his alone, or if it's shared by others. I suspect that it will be specific to him, actually, given other factors (i.e. it might be specifically an rl0 <-> rl0 only problem, etc.). > The network also runs through a fairly cheapo switch. It could be a duplex problem, but none of that code is different from 4.7, and he says it works there, dso that's not going to be it. I expect that it's his specific cards from a specific vendor, and the only one who will be able to find the change that causes his problem is him (he's the only one complaining about it, at this point). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message