high latency

[Skylar Thompson]

Peter Risdon wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:52 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I have 4 FreeBSD Servers connected to a Cisco 2950 all doing inter-VLAN 
>>routing.  Everything is working right, but one server is getting absurdly 
>>high latency through the VLANs.
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>>Now, the problematic box is running a RealTek card,
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>Ugh. You don't say which one, but I just cured a prob with nfs by
>replacing a brand new Realtek card with an old digital NIC that was
>lying around. Not for the first time, I vow never to use Realtek cards
>again.
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Not for naught is this comment in the source for the FreeBSD driver:

The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.'

I've had nothing but bad luck from them.

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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/

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