em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Tue Aug 10 14:55:12 PDT 2004


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Matt Douhan wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 23.44, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Probably a linksys judging from his first line in the email

Actually, my post mentioned the Linksys ... is Spartak running the same? 
:)

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