On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:41:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan van Doesselaar wrote: > Dear all, > > At the moment I'm running a CURRENT snapshot from February, yet > somehow my network speeds are quite low. I've tested this with iperf, > SMB and SCP, yet all give me more or less the same speeds, which is > about 50 - 60Mbps. The weird thing is that this is only the case when > the FreeBSD machine receives data, sending data is all fine. At least, > with a 100Mbps link iperf gives me quite decent speeds (>90Mbps) > > This is the case for gigabit as well as 100Mbps, depending on what > cable I use to the switch. > I've also tested this directly, with a cable to a machine, but this > was to no avail. I've tried changing some variables with sysctl > (net.inet.tcp.recvspace, sendspace, recvbuf_auto, > kern.ipc.maxsockbuf), yet those did not do anything. > > dmesg has this to say about the network card: > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 > rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, > 1000baseT-FDX, aut > Show me complete dmesg output, the above just tells what PHY hardware is used. > I cannot say I've tested this with a STABLE release, but in Windows > and Gentoo Linux this worked fine. > > I have found one person with a seemingly similar problem, but this > person had the problem a couple of years ago and did not resolve it at > the time, or so it seems. See > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-hackers/2006/5/30/214298 for his > thread. > > I hope someone can give me some tips that will solve this problem. If > information is lacking, please do say so. >Received on Mon Mar 30 2009 - 00:00:12 UTC
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