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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:57:17 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stable-digest V5 #185
Message-ID:  <20010623195717.B94536@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <bulk.70437.20010623133523@hub.freebsd.org>; from owner-freebsd-stable-digest@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:35:23PM -0700
References:  <bulk.70437.20010623133523@hub.freebsd.org>

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> networking hell
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:53:25 -0400
> From: "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
> Subject: networking hell
> 
> still looking for a solution to this one.
> 
> box with working 100Mb fdx nic gets 11+MB/s transfers.
> great.
> 
> remove nic and install gigabit interface to test. gets 2.67MB/s transfers.
> bad.
> 
> remove nic and reinstall original 100Mb nic. gets 2.67MB/s transfers.
> bad
> 
> install new 100Mb nic. 
> bad
> 
> install different brand 100Mb nic.
> bad.
> 
> reinstall box
> bad.
> 
> what the hell is going on? i'm stuck permanently at 2.67MB/s no matter 
> what interface i put in there. forcing both the box and switch to 100Mb fdx
> does not help, either.
> 
> i really need some suggestions here.

Did you repower/reset all/any swithes in the network which may have
auto-negotiated down to 10MB after the first NIC change and stayed
that way.

It only takes one machine or NIC to screw up an entire network so
you may have fixed it after the first re-install of NIC but the
network was hosed at that time.


-- 
Bill Vermillion -   bv @ wjv . com

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