Bandwidth Troubleshooting

[Mike Tancsa]

At 08:47 PM 17/05/2006, Gunter Wambaugh wrote:
>>On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:13:05 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
>>you wrote:
>>
>>>         media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>

This looks like you have it set to 100-FD *Manual*.  Try
ifconfig fxp0 media autoselect



>>What kind of switch do you have your NIC plugged into ?
>>
>>What is the output of
>>netstat -ni
>>and
>>sysctl -a | grep flight
>>
>>         ---Mike
>>$ netstat -ni
>Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts
>Oerrs  Coll
>fxp0   1500 <Link#1>      00:06:29:de:51:ab 44071780  1735
>52399432     0     0
>fxp0   1500 fe80:1::206:2 fe80:1::206:29ff:        0     -
>3     -     -
>fxp0   1500 192.168.1     192.168.1.106     44029897     -
>
>This box is plugged into my Linksys Wireless router.  I don't think
>it's the router as other boxes connected to it seem unaffected.  I
>tried swapping the network cable and the port on the router, but
>Ierrs increased.  Bad network card?  Misconfigured network card/driver?


It looks like a duplex mismatch.  Change your duplex settings to auto 
and see how things go from there.

         ---Mike