Poor network performance: a lot of timeouts

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon May 30 12:18:44 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 07:52:13PM +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote:
> Imobach Gonz??lez Sosa wrote:
> 
> >Ok, I think I have it correctly with this command:
> >
> >ifconfig rl0 media 100baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex
> >
> >(rl0 or dc0, I've used two different NICs).
> >
> >Moreover, I connected my FreeBSD box to the ADSL router (directly, no
> >more machines connected) and forced the adapter to 10baseT/UTP and
> >full-duplex but it didn't work. I also tried with 100baseTX, but then
> >there was no carrier (the ADSL router is a bit old, and only support
> >10Mbps).
> >
> Both sides must have same config, autosense should work if there is no 
> config possibility in other end.

autosense may in fact not work, especially on low-quality NICs like rl.

Kris
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