Brad Knowles writes: > At 3:32 PM -0700 2002/12/02, Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > > > One thing I've used in the past that improves Realtek throughput is forcing > > the media type and duplex setting on both ends of the connection. Autodetect > > in the 8139s seems to be unreliable at times. > > This is true for most 10/100 Base-T implementations I've seen. > None of them have been able to reliably auto-detect. Any time I hear > someone complain of network throughput problems, this is one of the > first things I have them check. However, this would not seem to be > the case in this instance, unless 4.7 and 5.x are not handling > auto-detect in the same way.
Phk made some large (and somewhat controversial, at the time) changes to the mii support code in -current about 7 months ago. Before blaming the mii code, I'd feel better if we knew a hardcoded connection worked better. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
