I always found Realtek cards okay because they would work
everywhere, nearly every OS supported them. But especially
the RTL8139, if I remember correctly, was so busy generating
IRQs that it didn't find the time to have a good performance. :-)
but it works very well. in places when there is no
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:42:31 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> realtek cards are not bad by design. this particular was broken
I always found Realtek cards okay because they would work
everywhere, nearly every OS supported them. But especially
the RTL8139, if I remember correctly, was so bus
:-( :-( :-)
Swapping the rl(4) card for a xl(4) card did the trick. I can now
saturate the line in both directions. I think I'm going to scrap the
other rl(4) card in my machine as well and replace it with an fxp(4) card.
no. realtek cards are not bad by desi
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:25:01 +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> Swapping the rl(4) card for a xl(4) card did the trick. I can now
> saturate the line in both directions. I think I'm going to scrap the
> other rl(4) card in my machine as well and replace it with an fxp(4) card.
Yeah... something I did s
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:34:17PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>
> >> it may be problem with autoconfiguration of speed and half/full duplex.
> >> try setting it manually on one or both sides.
> >
> > Both were showing 100baseTX full-duplex on autoselect. Setting both
> > manually with 'ifconf
it may be problem with autoconfiguration of speed and half/full duplex.
try setting it manually on one or both sides.
Both were showing 100baseTX full-duplex on autoselect. Setting both
manually with 'ifconfig [rl1|xl0] media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex'
didn't improve things.
try half-dup
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a
> > point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at
> > around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any
> > activity. Is
Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a
point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at
around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any
activity. Is this normal for rsync running over a network? There is a
no.
rsync daemon r
