After much to-ing & fro-ing ealier this year, I ended up using a Realtek on an otherwise respectable machine. For the most part it seemed alright. Then just before I went on an extended overseas trip 7 weeks ago, it started doing odd things. Small transfers worked OK, but larger ones just trickled through. The effect was immediately observable with tcpblast. Once you sent a number of 1k blocks that was over the tcp_sendspace & tcp_recvspace limits, the transfer rate dropped dramatically. Adjusting the tcp_sendspace etc parameters affected when this would happen. UDP seemed quite happy (thank goodness for that, as otherwise NFS would've gone down the drain) Anyway, there were NetGear cards going cheap, so I replaced the Realtek with that and all is well. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Why I hate RealTek ethernet cards
Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Perth Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:11:40 -0700