Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Thyer
had to walk into mine and say:
> There are certain RealTek chipsets that perform very badly in both Windows
> and FreeBSD in my experience. This is due to poor hardware design as far
> as the FreeBSD driver author could see.
There are certain RealTek chipsets that perform very badly in both Windows
and FreeBSD in my experience. This is due to poor hardware design as far
as the FreeBSD driver author could see.
Replace your network card with a $30 PCI 10/100 card that is not a RealTek
such as the VIA Technologies VT304
I'm running a RealTek ethernet card in a 486dx4-100 machine and am having some
problems. Firstly, doing an ls on a nfs mounted directory exported from the
RealTek machine hangs. According to tcpdump it is receiving the readdir
packets. Secondly, it will hange solidly when acting as the receiver