Where to troubleshoot Intel PRO/1000 performance problems?

[Sally Janghos]

Eygene,

  Both machines are reporting a 1Gb link:
	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)

Thanks for you help though.


On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:47:54AM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Sally, good day.
> 
> Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:16:02AM -0700, Sally Janghos wrote:
> > I'm looking for some suggestions on where to start troubleshooting
> > performance issues on a Intel PRO 1000 card.
> > 
> > It's installed in a box with the following configuration:
> > 	FreeBSD 6.1
> > 	AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ (1741.42-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > 	Dell CERC SATA RAID 2
> > 
> > The file transfer(ftp/smb/scp) speeds from/to this machine do not
> > appear to go above 10Mb.
> 
> Assuming that you're talking about MBytes/sec there is a chance
> that your network link is using 100 MBit/sec full-duplex mode instead
> of 1Gbit/sec. Try to do 'ifconfig | grep media' on the FreeBSD box
> and watch for the speed regime specification.
> 
> > The other machine doing the transfers has similar specs (same
> > Ethernet Card) but is a Windows XP box.
> 
> Windows should report the interface speed too: unplug the cable, plug it
> again and watch for the fancy popup on the taskbar. Or check the interface
> properties box.
> -- 
> Eygene