Where to start troubleshooting Intel PRO/1000 performance problems?

[Sally Janghos]

Here is the ifconfig output:

> ifconfig
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=4b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,POLLING>
        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        ether 00:07:e9:18:c2:37
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

Also,

> netstat -in
Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
em0    1500 <Link#1>      00:07:e9:18:c2:37 75678438     0 94462194     0     0
em0    1500 192.168.0     192.168.0.2       75619718     - 94404507     -     -
lo0   16384 <Link#2>                           26827     0    26827     0     0
lo0   16384 127           127.0.0.1            26827     -    26827     -     -


On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:00:33PM +0100, usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> Sally,
> 
> On 3/22/07, Sally Janghos <list at deeboz.ca> wrote:
> >I'm looking for some suggestions on where to start troubleshooting
> >performance issues on a Intel PRO 1000 card.
> >
> >It's installed in a box with the following configuration:
> >        FreeBSD 6.1
> >        AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ (1741.42-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >        Dell CERC SATA RAID 2
> >
> >The file transfer(ftp/smb/scp) speeds from/to this machine do not appear to
> >go above 10Mb.  The other machine
> >doing the transfers has similar specs(same Ethernet Card) but is a Windows
> >XP box.  I've tried replacing the switch with
> >a crossover cable between the machines and the same speed persists.  Any
> >suggestions on where to start and what tools
> >should I use to do the benchmarks?
> 
> please supply the output of "ifconfig"
> 
> regards,
> 
> usleep
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