em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Tue Aug 10 14:44:14 PDT 2004


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Spartak Radchenko wrote:

> 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

Against what type of switch?

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