On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 18:10:19 -0600, TOPCAT CONSULTING wrote: > 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: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> 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?
As it says: > (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > How do I turn full-duplexing on? Or maybe that's not the problem? If your LAN is 100 Mb/s, it's definitely a problem. Try: # ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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