Question: Why ain't I getting gigabit speed?

[John Nielsen]

On Feb 9, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> P.S.  While I appreciate all the friendly advice people here have given
> me, i.e. to go with a card based around some non-Realtek chip, I have to
> say that up until now I have always and consistantly had -zero- problems
> with the many other Realtek-based 10/100 cards that I have owned and used.

A bit OT, but I would say that this is _because_ of the FreeBSD driver (rl, also by Bill Paul). Some of the hardware deficiencies documented in the manpage and in comments in the if_rl.c are almost comical..