Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Degler
Hi, I'm guessing that the tulip driver is not setting the chip up correctly. I've seen this happen with other tulip variants (21143) when tries to autonegotiate. if you do an ifconfig eth1 you will see numerous carrier and crc errors. Set the tulip_debug flag to 2 or 3 in /etc/modules.conf and

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Greear
John William wrote: > > >Depends on what is driving it... An application I built can only push > >about > >80 Mbps bi-directional on PII 550Mhz machines. It is not the most > >efficient program in > >the world, but it isn't too bad either... > > > >I missed the rest of this thread, so maybe you

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread John William
>Depends on what is driving it... An application I built can only push >about >80 Mbps bi-directional on PII 550Mhz machines. It is not the most >efficient program in >the world, but it isn't too bad either... > >I missed the rest of this thread, so maybe you already mentioned it, but >what is

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Ben Greear
John William wrote: > > >I've seen many reports like this where the NIC is invalidly in > >full-duplex more while the router is in half-duplex mode. > > [root@copper diag]# ./tulip-diag eth1 -m > tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.htm

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread John William
>I've seen many reports like this where the NIC is invalidly in >full-duplex more while the router is in half-duplex mode. [root@copper diag]# ./tulip-diag eth1 -m tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-31 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
> >the Netgear FA311/2 (tulip). Found that the link lost > >connectivity because of card lockups and transmit timeout > >failures - and some of these were silent. However, I moved > >to the 3C905C (3c59x driver) which behaved like a champ, and > I'm a little confused here - do you mean the FA310T

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-29 Thread John William
>From: Nivedita Singhvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Abysmal RECV network performance >Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:45:28 -0700 (PDT) >While we didnt use 2.2 kernels at all, we did similar tests >on 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 k

Re: Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-28 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
> Can someone please help me troubleshoot this problem - > I am getting abysmal (see numbers below) network performance > on my system, but the poor performance seems limited to receiving > data. Transmission is OK. [ snip ] > What kind of performance should I be seeing with a P-90 > on a 1

Abysmal RECV network performance

2001-05-27 Thread John William
Can someone please help me troubleshoot this problem - I am getting abysmal (see numbers below) network performance on my system, but the poor performance seems limited to receiving data. Transmission is OK. The computer in question is a dual Pentium 90 machine. The machine has RedHat 7.0 (ker