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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:37:04 -0500
From:      Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
To:        Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com>
Cc:        Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
Subject:   Re: high latency
Message-ID:  <421A7EB0.3090505@cs.earlham.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1108985480.96957.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
References:  <000701c517fb$0e32af40$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <1108985480.96957.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>

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Peter Risdon wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN 
>>routing.  Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly 
>>high latency through the VLANs.
>>    
>>
>
>[...]
>
>  
>
>>Now, the problematic box is running a RealTek card,
>>    
>>
>
>Ugh. You don't say which one, but I just cured a prob with nfs by
>replacing a brand new Realtek card with an old digital NIC that was
>lying around. Not for the first time, I vow never to use Realtek cards
>again.
>  
>

Not for naught is this comment in the source for the FreeBSD driver:

The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.'

I've had nothing but bad luck from them.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


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