Re: Why is my gigabit ethernet so slow?

[Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen%iki.fi@localhost>]

Matthias Scheler wrote:

> 1.) Please check the output of "ifconfig wm0" to make sure it detected
>     the mode correctly.

# ifconfig wm0
wm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

capabilities=7ff80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx,TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx,TSO6>
        enabled=0
        address: 00:15:17:c8:a4:7c
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT 
full-duplex,flowcontrol,master,rxpause,txpause)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fec8:a47c%wm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

2.) Please try to run "ttcp" with the option "-s 131072" to increase
>     the socket buffer size.

I assume you mean -b xxx? Yes, that gave me 842.92 Mbps :-)

Martti