Hi,

        i have a machine with Pentium 4-D processor utilizing 
FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE-p10/amd64.

        The machine is running SMP kernel.

        The machine has 2 on-board Broadcom BCM5721 NICs, which are handeled by 
the bge(4) driver and 4 D-Link DL10050 NICs, which are handeled by the ste(4) 
driver.
        Machine is targeted for a gateway/firewall and will handle a big amount 
of network traffic.

        It seems the bge(4) driver has severe performance problems (may be 
especially in my configuration).
        I tried test scp(1) to a remote machine, using one of the BCM5721 NICs. 
The average speed which has been reached was 200kBps.

        Just for comparison, when i tryed the same test scp(1), to the same 
remote machine, but using one of the D-Link DL10050 NICs, the average speed 
which has been reached was 10MBps.

        Could someone point me to a good performance tuning document for bge(4) 
handeled NICs, under SMP kernel or at all?

        Thanks in advance!

                Vladimir
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