Re: Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts

From: Ronald Klop (ronald-freebsd8_at_klop.yi.org)
Date: 05/30/05

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    To: Imobach González Sosa <imobachgs@banot.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:06:09 +0200

    On Mon, 30 May 2005 17:00:23 +0200, Imobach González Sosa
    <imobachgs@banot.net> wrote:

    > El lun, 30-05-2005 a las 12:49 +0200, Gunnar Flygt escribió:
    >> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:03:20AM +0100, Imobach González Sosa wrote:
    >> > El dom, 29-05-2005 a las 14:27 -0700, Kris Kennaway escribió:
    >> > >
    >> > > This kind of thing is often caused by duplex mismatch on your NIC.
    >> >
    >> > Ok, I've been playing around with media options (10/100, full and half
    >> > duplex) but it didn't work. I suppose that I'll try to get a better
    >> NIC
    >> > from one of my friends to try again :P
    >>
    >> The only important thing here is that you have the same settings on the
    >> switch as on the server! For Linux-es I tend to set them auto - auto but
    >> for FreeBSD 100/full (non negotiation) - 100/full wotks best.
    >
    > Ok, I think I have it correctly with this command:
    >
    > ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex
    >
    > (rl0 or dc0, I've used two different NICs).
    >
    > Moreover, I connected my FreeBSD box to the ADSL router (directly, no
    > more machines connected) and forced the adapter to 10baseT/UTP and
    > full-duplex but it didn't work. I also tried with 100baseTX, but then
    > there was no carrier (the ADSL router is a bit old, and only support
    > 10Mbps).
    >
    > So, I'm running out of ideas :(
    >
    > Thank you all for your help!

    Don't you need a cross-cable to connect directly to the router? 

    -- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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