From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 7:19:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sentry.granch.com (sentry.granch.com [212.109.197.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B494837B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sentry.granch.ru (IDENT:shelton@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sentry.granch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23644; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:16:05 +0700 (NOVST) Message-ID: <39EC5F25.15247FC7@sentry.granch.ru> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:16:05 +0700 From: "Rashid N. Achilov" Reply-To: achilov@granch.ru Organization: Granch Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Cc: Gabriel Ambuehl , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 100mbit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bart wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > > Hello Bart, > > > > Thursday, October 12, 2000, 3:37:22 PM, you wrote: > > > > >> How fast is the link over that you're talking to the server? Or do you > > >> mean internal transfers over the switch of the colo facility? > > > Internal transfers; the weird part is that my old > > > 3COM509b at 10mbit was faster over the same link > > > (internal and external) > > > > Well ACK. There must be something wrong. What does ifconfig -a yield? > > What about traceroute (there are colos who use, for some > > reasons I never really understood, their routers for traffic in their > > own LAN even if both machines are in the same subnet on the same > > I checked again and found this message: > Oct 17 14:35:33 wg /kernel: rl0: no memory for tx listrl0: no memory for > tx list > Oct 17 14:35:33 wg /kernel: rl0: no memory for tx list > Oct 17 14:35:33 wg /kernel: rl0: no memory for tx listrl0: no memory for > tx listrl0: no memory for tx list > Oct 17 14:35:33 wg /kernel: rl0: no memory for tx listrl0: no memory for > tx list > Oct 17 14:35:33 wg /kernel: rl0: no memory for tx listrl0: no memory for > tx list > Read /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c (begin comments from the driver developer) and you'll understand all...:-) RealTek-based cards (SMC1211TX, Accton and RealTek itself) working at 100Mb terrible! When they stand on two server of "my" network, these servers often made a reboots or simply loose the connect each other (were connected by crossover UTP5). Atfer change to Intel EtherExpress Pro/100+ all these symptoms disappeared. -- With Best Regards. Rashid N. Achilov (RNA1-RIPE), Brainbench ID: 28514 Granch Ltd. system administrator, e-mail: achilov@granch.ru tel/fax (383-2) 24-2363 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message