Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:36:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jerry Blancher <flerll@kaschynna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kingston KNE30T PCI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410222605.28437G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980409025649.15723A-100000@kaschynna.com>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jerry Blancher wrote: > I have the Kingston KNE30T PCI ethernet card. It is set up on a new > system with NO load and NO traffic. Here is a clipping of my system: > > CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping=2 > Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX> > real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) > avail memory = 61206528 (59772K bytes) > Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: > chip0 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=1595 subclass=0)> rev 3 on > pci0:0: > 0 > chip1 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=0586 subclass=1)> rev 39 on > pci0:7 > :0 > pci0:7:1: VIA Technologies, device=0x0571, class=storage (ide) [no driver > assign > ed] > ed1 <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11:0 > ed1: address 00:c0:f0:2a:7c:29, type NE2000 (16 bit) This would explain why the KNE30 series is so cheap :-( > My first question is, why is it listing it as a (16 bit) card? Probably a leftover from the ISA probe. > My second question is why is it so slow to the first stop (router) > outside of my box.. traceroute: > > 1 badboy.ieway.com (204.188.52.1) 1.991 ms 2.094 ms 2.094 ms > > This new system is also on a new provider. Hm, by comparison, I get ~.7 pinging my Cisco, hitting a hub and a switch first. What kind of router is your router, anyway? > My old system on the old provider with a true 16 bit card running 2.2.5 > (compared to 2.2.6 of the new system) pulls traceroutes to te first router > at times of less then .5 ms > > When the old system and the new system was on the same hub, I could pull > files from the old system to the new system at the rate of over 1MB/sec. > > According to the Kingston manual, > PCI transfer up to 132 MB/sec > EISA transfer up to 33 MB/sec > ISA transfer up to 8 MB/sec This is ideal on a quiet network. Fat chance. > So, my major question is, is it the card, settings, or new provider that > would be slowing down the works? Run a tcpdump and see how busy your network is. The more hubs you go through the slower it gets, and cheap crappy hubs really push that RTT up. > Also, is there a way to do a flood test on the ethernet card to see how > well it handles it's self? ping -f from another UNIX box, but don't do this during the middle of the day. > BTW, GREAT job on 2.2.6, had no problems getting the OS to run, and I see > a few nasty bugs are fixed, mainly the : anyuser can freeze up the machine > with a simple kill command :). Neat :) > Also, I have run many other test's, trying to break the OS (mainly > scripts that run commands and also spawn other process's that do the > same) and the OS ends up freezing the scripts before the system freezes > up. Die, you silly forkbombs! :-) > As far as a server goes, FreeBSD seems to be VERY stable, as most > questions on this list are focasing on home or at least user-at-console > use. Running as designed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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