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Hello,

On Feb 4, 2008, at 05:26, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:

> 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.....

Can your disk can keep up with that? Those 2.5" driver used in old  
powerbooks aren't exactly fast by today's standard. If you want to  
measure pure network throughput use something like ttcp that doesn't  
hammer the disk.

have fun
Michael
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