em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

[Spartak Radchenko]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:37:28PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> I have 5 servers sitting on a Linksys 10/100 switch ... 4 of the 5 are 
> running fxp0 ethernet, while the 5th is running em ... and the 5th 
> performs atrociously:
> 
> neptune# netstat -ni | head
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  
> Coll
> em0    1500 <Link#1>    00:07:e9:05:1b:2e 36915965 10306 28888840     1 
> 10858513

I have no problems with em:

> netstat -ni | head
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
em0   1500  <Link#1>  00:07:e9:05:46:98 1859370761   0 1709686290     0     0

> uname -rs
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p3

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