Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:59:26 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slow bfe0, dropouts - help? Message-ID: <20060120195926.GJ25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060120173633.GD45194@hut.isi.edu> References: <20060120173633.GD45194@hut.isi.edu>
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On Fri, 2006-Jan-20 09:36:33 -0800, Ted Faber wrote: >I'm running a Dell Inspiron 6000 with at Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast >Ethernet on it, and the "Fast" really isn't there. I'm frequently getting >KB/s performance out of it on a 100 Mb/s link when trying to download, This looks like a duplex mismatch - one end of the link is running full-duplex and the other end is running half-duplex, probably because one end is forced to full-duplex and the other end is auto-negotiate. Compare 'ifconfig bfe0' on the FreeBSD box with the status reported by the switch. See the 'media' and 'mediaopt' options of ifconfig(8) and the supported options in bfe(4). -- Peter Jeremy
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