From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 10 14:37:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23585 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23580 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA10938; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:36:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA72321; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:36:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:36:44 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porting to EB64+ / Alpine In-Reply-To: <199901102159.WAA08267@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <13977.4332.669944.1550@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199901102159.WAA08267@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13977.10727.509029.824700@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > > Hmm. At least I now know that it is not related to the Alpine, but also > happens on an EB64+, at least I assume you have an EB64+ It does annoy me.. No, actually I don't have one. I've seen it on my AS200's, AS500's & Miatas. > > Something else: have you ever noticed abysmal performance using a 10mbit > DE Ethernet card? I get using ftp something like 250-300 kB/s, using > NetBSD on the Alpine I get 800-900 kb/s (same server on the other side). > NFS (client) performance also stinks. No. Perhaps its a duplex mismatch? Does the autsensed duplex match reality? > DE500 on 100mbit network does not seem to work at all. I will try that one > with NetBSD also. What does 'doesn't work' mean? Does it show up in a verbose boot? Does the console see it? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message