em driver worse then fxp driver ... why?

[Matt Douhan]

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

Matt