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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:37:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Etherlink XL driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806133129.302e-100000@bright.ny.otec.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808060425.VAA23145@hub.freebsd.org>

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> > using the first version of the driver posted on 100mb segement seemed to
> > have not great performance.  The admin here said he was able to get
> > ~8megs/sec over the segment using Linux and 11megs/sec via Solaris, the
> > FreeBSD driver was never over 4.5megs and averaged around 3-3.5.  This is
> > ftp transfers.  It seems to grab a LOT of data, then "stall" then grab,
> > stall over and over.
> 
> Can you describe the system in which the card is installed? What kind
> of processor and how fast is it?

Well it's a PII-300, 128megs of RAM.

> Make absolutely sure the 3Com and the hub/switch are operating in the
> same mode. Use 'ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex'
> to force a full-duplex link, or 'mediaopt half-duplex to force a
> half-duplex link.

will do later, it's kinda busy here at the moment.

thank you,
Alfred


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