Realtek 8139 with rl(4) driver -> Poor performance

[Gabriel Lavoie]

I guess I'll have to try both solutions!

Thanks for your help.

Gabriel

2008/11/16 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:01:58PM -0500, Gabriel Lavoie wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >      I recently built a new system to use as a home server. This system
> has
>  > an Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200, 4GB RAM and an Asus P5KPL-CM
> motherboard
>  > which has an Atheros L1E network adapter, not yet supported on FreeBSD.
> For
>
> ale(4) was committed to HEAD. If you're using lastest stable/7
> see the following URL.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/README<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/ale/README>
>
>  > now, I use a Realtek 8139 PCI adapter that uses the rl(4) driver, but
> the
>  > upload performances are really poor (under 1 MB/sec). Is there any way
> to
>  > improve the performance with this driver? This adapter was in a Linux
> system
>  > with a Pentium III processor before and I could upload/download at
> around 10
>  > MB/sec in my local network with no problem at all.
>  >
>
> There was a bus_dma(9) bug in rl(4) and it was fixed in HEAD.
> How about rl(4) in HEAD? I guess it would build with minor
> modification.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
>



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Gabriel Lavoie
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