From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 3 6: 1:21 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 B0D2637B401 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F4D43EAF for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:01:15 -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 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04433; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:00:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gB3E0Q790609; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:00:26 -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 Message-ID: <15852.47354.584019.485101@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:00:26 -0500 (EST) To: Brad Knowles Cc: cbiffle@safety.net, "Craig Reyenga" , Subject: Re: Any ideas at all about network problem? In-Reply-To: References: <2668299.1038795112570.JavaMail.creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> <001001c299c7$766a6120$0200000a@sewer.org> <200212021532.03071.cbiffle@safety.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message