From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 16:18:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dambiec.mine.nu (CPE-203-51-31-174.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.51.31.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 215CA37B405 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:18:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 94535 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 00:22:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO karunwinxp) (10.0.1.3) by 10.0.1.1 with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 00:22:05 -0000 Message-ID: <010801c186ba$a067c9c0$0301000a@karunwinxp> From: "Karun" To: "Sam Drinkard" , References: <3C1E888B.18FEFFF6@vortex.wa4phy.net> Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:21:03 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Scenario: first card is running under 4.4-Stable in an Athalon 880 box, > pretty much plain jane. It connects to an el-cheapo LinkSys hub, which > in turn feeds another P233 box running RH-7.0, and another P3-733 > running 98. The problem, (of sorts) is this. Initial bootup sets the > card up as "none" for media select. I see terrible thruput to either > box. If I set media to 10BaseT/UTP, speed goes up drasticaly, but I see > tons and tons of collisions. Is there a tuning parameter in the kernel > I could manipulate to maybe cut down on something to reduce the > collisions? Have tried setting mtu lower, but no avail. Unfortunately, > RH does not support media options with that particular card, however > some are supported according to man page. > Collisions are a normal part of an ethernet network and cannot be prevented from occuring. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message