Re: Slow booting with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B

[R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)]

Andrew Coulthurst wrote:
> 
> Rogier,
> Sounds like you are using 10Mbps mode !
> 
> By any chance is the other network card a 10Mbps card ?
> 
> ( round trip time is 0.6ms for me - through a 100Mbps hub )

yeah. I think I get similar results for "fast" packets, but enough get
delayed for long enough to get the average up to 10ms! There is a large
variance. 

Both cards are EEpro-100B's. 

> Your server is certainly up to the job ;-)
> 
> My performance is with a Cyrix 120+ with 64Mb ram + linux 2.0.33
> ( Slackware 3.4 )
> 
> Can you tell me which chip is on the 100B card ?
> is it an 82557 or an 82558 ?

Both have a 82557.  (grabbed a flashlight: the one that is in a
computer that has the cover off, has been double checked... :-)

> BTW I'm still not happy with a peak transfer rate of 82Mbps ;-)

Indeed. But I'm having trouble sourcing and sinking more than 5Mb per
second on both computers (although I have a striped RAID disk on the
server)

				Roger.


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