From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 10:37:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15904 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.ny.otec.com (bright.ny.otec.com [209.3.16.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15889; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:37:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.ny.otec.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA27893; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:37:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:37:58 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: Bill Paul cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Etherlink XL driver In-Reply-To: <199808060425.VAA23145@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message