Re: 3c59x w 905B Cyclone limited to 10 MBit

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306132243280.26312-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ralph Stuber wrote:

> But if I want to scp a file from my amd 700 to my p133, I only see about
> 1 MB/sec in both directions, as one would expect for ...

... such a slow CPU. scp uses encryption before sending data to the remote 
host; then data is decrypted and written to disk. Both encryption and 
decryption are CPU intensive processes. If you want to test the network 
speed either transfer files through something like "netcat" which just 
sends data directly over the network or use specific tools like ttcp or 
netperf. However, the p133 as a whole might not be able to sustain high 
data rates close to the theoretical limit of FastEthernet. Check the 
archives of this list, a few days ago we had a very similar topic.

> But the tools mentiones earlier on this list seem to indicate that
> everything shoul be ok.

And it is indeed. All diag output indicates good settings.

> I loaded the driver as module with options=0x0208 and hw_checksums=1 on
> my p133, and on amd700 with options=0x0608 and hw_checksums=1.

You should probably not use any options. IIRC some Cyclone cards were not 
very reliable when doing hardware checksumming. If you experience errors, 
try switching it off.

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Bogdan Costescu

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