Re: Network problem...

[Donald Lee <MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost>]

>Hello guys
>
>After having upgraded to NetBSD 4.0, from a mix of 3.1 kernel and 2.x 
>userland, I now have a trusty PowerBook 3500 running fairly smoothly...
>
>I do however have a performance problem with the Belkin network PCCARD, which 
>is Accton based...
>(Besides I am using the lower of the two PCCARD slots, as I believe it is the 
>only one that is useable...)
>
>and from dmesg:
>rtk0 at cardbus0 function 0: Accton MPX 5030/5038 10/100BaseTX
>rtk0: Ethernet address 00:30:bd:11:51:85
>rlphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Realtek internal PHY
>rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>
>
>ifconfig rtk0
>rtk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        address: 00:30:bd:11:51:85
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
>        status: active
>        inet x.x.x.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast x.x.x.255
>        inet6 fe80::230:bdff:fe11:5185%rtk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>
>
>and doing a ftp transfer:
>
>ftp> put 10Mtestb.rnd
>local: 10Mtestb.rnd remote: 10Mtestb.rnd
>229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62822|)
>150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for '10Mtestb.rnd'.
>100% |************************************************************| 10240 KB   
> 1.18 MB/s    00:08
>226 Transfer complete.
>10485760 bytes sent in 00:08 (1.18 MB/s)
>ftp> get 10Mtestb.rnd
>local: 10Mtestb.rnd remote: 10Mtestb.rnd
>229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62809|)
>150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for '10Mtestb.rnd' (10485760 bytes).
>100% |************************************************************| 10240 KB   
> 2.74 MB/s    00:03
>226 Transfer complete.
>10485760 bytes received in 00:03 (2.73 MB/s)
>
>and the ifconfig.rtk0
>
>cat /etc/ifconfig.rtk0
># x.x.x.3 netmask 0xffffff00 media 100baseTX-FDX
>x.x.x.3 netmask 0xffffff00
>
>(have tried both the 100BaseTX-FDX and (now) with auto.... nothing very 
>different performance wise...)
>
>Network load is next to nothing.....
>
>I would expect somewhat more throughput.....

Actually, 2.7 MBytes/sec sounds pretty good for that machine with wwhat
you're doing.  You should be pleased. ;->

-dgl-