I've received a new mobo with a vr(4) NIC. Ever since I installed it I'm getting very slow transfer speeds (i.e. from 7-8 mb/s to 0.3-0.4 mb/s). I've googled and stfa and found some complaints on the freebsd mailing lists but wasn't able to find a solution. Is this a known bug? Should I just buy another NIC and get it over with?
$ ifconfig vr0 vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:e0:12:34:56:78 groups: egress media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active inet6 fe80::2e0:12ff:fe34:5678%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.64 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 As ifconfig shows this should be running just fine at fast ethernet with full-duplex... Attached is my dmesg (just updated to the latest snapshot). OpenBSD 4.0-current (GENERIC) #822: Sun Feb 4 04:09:47 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 1005907968 (982332K) avail mem = 849092608 (829192K) using 22937 buffers containing 100798464 bytes (98436K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0730 (59 entries) bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5VDC-MX acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2793.49 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,NXE,LONG cpu0: 1MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "VIA PT890 Host" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA S3 Unichrome PRO IGP" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8251 SATA" rev 0x00: DMA pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD800JD-00LSA0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x07: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD/DVDW SDR5472D, TU00> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide1: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 10 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 3 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8251 ISA" rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 17 function 7 "VIA VT8251 VLINK" rev 0x00 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x7c: irq 11, address 00:e0:12:34:56:78 rlphy0 at vr0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 19 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCI" rev 0x00 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 cmpci0 at pci5 dev 9 function 0 "C-Media Electronics CMI8738/C3DX Audio" rev 0x10: irq 5 audio0 at cmpci0 opl at cmpci0 not configured mpu at cmpci0 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it2 at isa0 port 0xd00/8: IT87 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 /dev/wd0k: file system not clean; please fsck(8) syncing disks... OpenBSD 4.1-beta (RAMDISK_CD) #1028: Mon Feb 19 18:15:32 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD real mem = 1005907968 (982332K) avail mem = 850620416 (830684K) using 22937 buffers containing 100798464 bytes (98436K) of memory mainbus0 (root) acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2793.48 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu0: 1MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "VIA PT890 Host" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA S3 Unichrome PRO IGP" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8251 SATA" rev 0x00: DMA pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD800JD-00LSA0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x07: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD/DVDW SDR5472D, TU00> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide1: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 10 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 3 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered "VIA VT8251 ISA" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 not configured pchb6 at pci0 dev 17 function 7 "VIA VT8251 VLINK" rev 0x00 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x7c: irq 11, address 00:e0:12:34:56:78 rlphy0 at vr0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 19 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCI" rev 0x00 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 "C-Media Electronics CMI8738/C3DX Audio" rev 0x10 at pci5 dev 9 function 0 not configured isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 rd0: fixed, 3584 blocks dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on rd0a rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x2f00 rawdev=0x2f02 syncing disks... OpenBSD 4.1-beta (GENERIC) #847: Mon Feb 19 17:54:11 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 1005907968 (982332K) avail mem = 849084416 (829184K) using 22937 buffers containing 100798464 bytes (98436K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0730 (59 entries) bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5VDC-MX acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2793.44 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu0: 1MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 "VIA PT890 Host" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 "VIA CN700 Host" rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 AGP" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "VIA S3 Unichrome PRO IGP" rev 0x01 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8251 SATA" rev 0x00: DMA pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD800JD-00LSA0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x07: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD/DVDW SDR5472D, TU00> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide1: channel 1 disabled (no drives) uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 10 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x90: irq 3 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x90: irq 5 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8251 ISA" rev 0x00 pchb6 at pci0 dev 17 function 7 "VIA VT8251 VLINK" rev 0x00 vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x7c: irq 11, address 00:e0:12:34:56:78 rlphy0 at vr0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 ppb3 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCIE" rev 0x00 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 19 function 1 "VIA VT8251 PCI" rev 0x00 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 cmpci0 at pci5 dev 9 function 0 "C-Media Electronics CMI8738/C3DX Audio" rev 0x10: irq 5 audio0 at cmpci0 opl at cmpci0 not configured mpu at cmpci0 not configured isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it2 at isa0 port 0xd00/8: IT87 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 /dev/wd0k: file system not clean; please fsck(8)