From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 17:10:59 2003 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 514FB37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eagle.sasktel.net (eagle.sasktel.net [142.165.19.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF7D43FAF for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from topcat@sk.sympatico.ca) Received: from sk.sympatico.ca (regnsk01d050301251.sk.sympatico.ca [142.165.28.251]) by eagle.sasktel.net (SaskTel Mail Service) with ESMTP id <0HGA008GNJ57PJ@eagle.sasktel.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:10:21 -0600 (CST) Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:10:19 -0600 From: TOPCAT CONSULTING Sender: root@regnsk01d050301251.sk.sympatico.ca To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3EE6736B.82597481@sk.sympatico.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: very slow NIC 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: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:10:59 -0000 I have an ethernet card that just doesn't seem to be performing well in both directions (in and out)....when I access this NIC from another machine on the LAN, file transfer is extremely fast, but when I use this machine to access another machine on the LAN, I can barely get 10 kb/sec out of it! Anyway dmesg.boot reports the card as: rl0: rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci0.13.0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:20:18:88:96:47 rl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) So, is full-duplexing not turned on or something? How do I turn full-duplexing on? Or maybe that's not the problem?