Realtek 8139 (rl) very poor performance

Vladimir Pianykh vlad at alpha.VL7.net
Thu Jan 20 09:09:20 PST 2005


Hi!

I had some problems with "rl" cards with "auto" media. It happens with some kind of hubs.
Try to specify type of your network media, for example:

# ifconfig rl0 inet 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
# route add default 10.0.0.254

Vlad.

> From owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org Thu Jan 20 11:31:23 2005
> From: Imobach =?iso-8859-1?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?= <imobachgs at banot.net>
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:30:03 +0000
> Subject: Realtek 8139 (rl) very poor performance
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter. On boot, the 
> detection looks just fine:
>
>  $ dmesg| grep rl
>  rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xee000000-0xee0000ff  
>  irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
>  miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
>  rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
>  rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>  rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:32:e5:12
>
> However, the performance is very poor. Some examples:
>
> * using 'fetch' command, I get a lot of "timeouts", so some "ports" fail to 
> install (I have to retry).
> * using Konqueror, for instance, I also get some "timeouts" and a very low 
> speed connecting to different websites.
>
> I've done the some test on the same machine (and on my laptop) using 
> GNU/Linux, and works pretty fine. So I discarded a network hardware issue as 
> the origin of the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you all in advance.
>
> -- 
> Imobach González Sosa
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