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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:00:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc:        cbiffle@safety.net, "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?
Message-ID:  <15852.47354.584019.485101@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a05200f01ba119f5e79ff@[10.0.1.2]>
References:  <2668299.1038795112570.JavaMail.creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> <001001c299c7$766a6120$0200000a@sewer.org> <a05200f26ba10df70dc1d@[146.106.12.76]> <200212021532.03071.cbiffle@safety.net> <a05200f01ba119f5e79ff@[10.0.1.2]>

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Brad Knowles writes:
 > At 3:32 PM -0700 2002/12/02, Cliff L. Biffle wrote:
 > 
 > >  One thing I've used in the past that improves Realtek throughput is forcing
 > >  the media type and duplex setting on both ends of the connection.  Autodetect
 > >  in the 8139s seems to be unreliable at times.
 > 
 > 	This is true for most 10/100 Base-T implementations I've seen. 
 > None of them have been able to reliably auto-detect.  Any time I hear 
 > someone complain of network throughput problems, this is one of the 
 > first things I have them check.  However, this would not seem to be 
 > the case in this instance, unless 4.7 and 5.x are not handling 
 > auto-detect in the same way.

Phk made some large (and somewhat controversial, at the time) changes
to the mii support code in -current about 7 months ago.  

Before blaming the mii code, I'd feel better if we knew a hardcoded
connection worked better.

Drew



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