On Fri, 2006-Jan-20 09:36:33 -0800, Ted Faber wrote: >I'm running a Dell Inspiron 6000 with at Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast >Ethernet on it, and the "Fast" really isn't there. I'm frequently getting >KB/s performance out of it on a 100 Mb/s link when trying to download, This looks like a duplex mismatch - one end of the link is running full-duplex and the other end is running half-duplex, probably because one end is forced to full-duplex and the other end is auto-negotiate. Compare 'ifconfig bfe0' on the FreeBSD box with the status reported by the switch. See the 'media' and 'mediaopt' options of ifconfig(8) and the supported options in bfe(4). -- Peter JeremyReceived on Fri Jan 20 2006 - 18:59:37 UTC
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