Re: Via-Rhine ethernet driver problem?

[Bjoern Schmidt <bj-schmidt@uni-paderborn.de>]

walt wrote:

[...]

> I also discovered by using 'scp' to copy files between machines that the 
> bad
> performance is assymetrical:  copying a file *to* this machine runs at 
> about
> half-speed (5 MB/sec) whereas copying a file *from* this machine runs at
> 45 KiloB/sec, about one percent of expected.

I have exactly the same problem on a asrock k7vt2 with VIA's Rhine II:

megabyte:~# uname -a
Linux megabyte 2.6.7 #1 Fri Jun 18 20:37:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

=================================================================

megabyte:~# lspci -v
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 
[Rhine-II] (rev 74)
         Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
         I/O ports at dc00
         Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

==================================================================

		up 		down
100baseTx-FD:	~45 kB/s	~100 MBit/s
100baseTx: 	~45 kB/s	~100 MBit/s
10baseT-FD: 	~45 kB/s	~10  MBit/s
10baseT:	~10 MBit/s	~10  MBit/s



-- 
Greetings
Bjoern Schmidt