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From: G Muthukumar <kmuthu@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: conf/23192: FTP REALLY slow on internal NIC aswel (12kb/s)
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The following reply was made to PR conf/23192; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: G Muthukumar <kmuthu@hotmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, oliver@n2mail.com,
	tburns@ualberta.ca
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/23192: FTP REALLY slow on internal NIC aswel (12kb/s)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:18:27 +0530

 Hi  there,
 
     I am submitting a follow up for this problem since I too faced this
 problem. I was running FreeBSD 4.3 when I first observed this problem.
 Thinking that this could be a problem with 4.3, I upgraded to 4.4 but it
 was of no use.
 
     I have two more OS's on the same machine and I get a transfer rate
 of 700-800 KB/s in an ftp transfer (all to the same machine) anytime I
 start the transfer. With FreeBSD it was very very poor (12-15 KB/s and
 it was slightly better [150KB/s ] when I 'put' the file). Needless to
 say, I was disappointed since I was running FreeBSD for a long time.
 
     I am happy now. Guess what? This seems to be a problem with the LAN
 driver or its interaction with TCP/IP.  My NIC was Realtek RTL 8139A.
 Since I wanted to submit a PR, I tested with different machines & NICs
 to give enough details.  When I changed my NIC to  COMPEX  RL100 ATX,
 the problem went away.
 
     I don't think there is any problem with the NIC itself since the
 transfer rate was very good in win98 & linux on the same machine.
 Looking at Taavi Burns's config (r8139),  I can say that my guess is
 correct.
 
 Taavi:
     Can you try replacing the NIC & see?
 
 FreeBSD development team:
     Can the problem associated with the rl dirver be fixed asap?
 
 Thanks,
 Muthu
 

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