Problem with Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Sep 1 10:10:19 PDT 2004


Autoselect on 100BaseT often does this..

specify the speed manually.


Gabor Esperon wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have an Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
>working at 100Mb/s on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT and FreeBSD
>5-BETA3:
>
>em0:
>flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
>1500
>       
>options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>        inet 192.168.1.32 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
>192.168.1.255
>        ether 00:07:e9:09:a7:37
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
><full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>
>thats ok, but in both systems I can only get transfers
>at 2.xMb/s (MBytes) as the following "netstat -w1 -I
>em0" show:
>            input          (em0)           output
>   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs     
>bytes colls
>       782     0      46920       1438     0   
>2177132     0
>       788     0      53500       1452     0   
>2209768     0
>       886     0      53160       1628     0   
>2464792     0
>       788     0      53904       1452     0   
>2208882     0
>       799     0      50672       1452     0   
>2198328     0
>       789     0      53572       1451     0   
>2206080     0
>       785     0      47100       1442     0   
>2186216     0
>       795     0      53944       1462     0   
>2218898     0
>       787     0      47220       1451     0   
>2195386     0
>       780     0      53004       1437     0   
>2189490     0
>       797     0      47820       1466     0   
>2216496     0
>       790     0      53692       1452     0   
>2209900     0
>       787     0      47220       1448     0   
>2195300     0
>       792     0      53832       1456     0   
>2210390     0
>       766     0      45960       1408     0   
>2131712     0
>       789     0      53472       1452     0   
>2211110     0
>       790     0      47400       1452     0   
>2198168     0
>       784     0      53352       1445     0   
>2198982     0
>       786     0      47160       1444     0   
>2183992     0
>       791     0      53652       1452     0   
>2209708     0
>
>What could be the problem here?
>
>=====
>Gabor
>Net/Sys Admin
>
>
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