On 7/3/05, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Realtek is a cheap adapter. You can try hard-coding the > media type to see what happens, but the fact remains this is > nowhere near as good a card as the 82801B. As a result of this > there hasn't been that much attention to driver optimizations, > you can review the work here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c > > If playing around with the media type doesen't fix it you can > try a send-pr but your best off just pulling the card and > replacing it with another Intel, then mailing the card to one > of the driver developers. Maybe in 6 months to a year you > might see a faster driver in FreeBSD - or maybe not.
Yeah, I know the 8169s isn't the flashest card in the universe and I don't mind donating a card or two to the developers, but with further testing -- assuming iperf isn't lying -- it seems the driver is OK and there's something happening further up the chain that I don't understand yet. What's weird is that with both 100 and 1000Mbit/s connections, the max speed is a quarter of the link speed when using applications such as ftp for transferring files. With iperf, I see 92Mbit/s on 100Mbit/s and 400-640Mbit/s on 1000mbit/s connections depending on the direction. -- Juha _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"