Hello list. Maybe you remember I'm trying to build a firewall/proxy/DNS server/DHCP server/access point using an old Toshiba laptop and 3 network interfaces.
A friend of mine gave me a pcmcia card with no recognizable brand/model on it. I plugged it in and OpenBSD told me it's a Realtek 8139 card, and called it "rl0". I can use the card, but apparently it works at 10Mbps instead of 100. I tried to force the card's speed and duplex adding suitable entries in /etc/hostname.rl0: inet 10.42.42.1 255.255.255.0 10.42.42.255 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex ifconfig -a shows a 100Mbps link speed, but the card's and the switch's led show 10Mbps. I can live with a 10Mbps connection, because the link to the internet runs at 2Mbps max, I don't care about a very fast connection between wired and wireless hosts and the laptop cannot be used as a repository anyway. However I'd like to understand what's going on. Is there any caveat about Realtek cards, more specifically about pcmcia ones? Is there a way to check actual connection speed, e.g. generating some random traffic from OpenBSD box to a faster PC? I'm positive the laptop's hard disk cannot generate the approx 11MBps transfer rate needed to saturate a 100Mbps link, so FTPing a large file is not an option. Any other suggestions appreciated. thank you all in advance, byee, Manuel Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
