From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 00:37:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B9D16A4CF for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:37:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF4D43D55 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:37:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from [159.28.57.98] (wir057098.rpa.earlham.edu [159.28.57.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1M0bAuJ015806 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:37:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Message-ID: <421A7EB0.3090505@cs.earlham.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:37:04 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson Organization: Earlham College Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Risdon References: <000701c517fb$0e32af40$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <1108985480.96957.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <1108985480.96957.180.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigAA33C49638EE281B34141F57" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on quark.cs.earlham.edu X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Earlham-CS-Dept-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: skylar@cs.earlham.edu cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" cc: Chris Knipe Subject: Re: high latency X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:37:26 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAA33C49638EE281B34141F57 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/ --------------enigAA33C49638EE281B34141F57 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCGn6zsc4yyULgN4YRArN9AJsFupryxDA5PzW2eotPEzsgKO0zLACgqg2Y zCMOG/104i+Ao+dyeIdxnWo= =Tx41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigAA33C49638EE281B34141F57--