Network problem...

["Niels S. Eliasen" <nse%delfi-konsult.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.....