[mythtvnz] Realtek NICs

[Steve Holdoway]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:07 +1200, criggie at criggie.dyndns.org wrote:

> That's dreadful.... that's not even "okay" for 100 Mbit, let alone gig.
> 
> desktop
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
> 
> server
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
> 
> 
> thionite:~# iperf -c caffeine
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to caffeine, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 10.28.2.9 port 48654 connected with 10.28.1.2 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.10 GBytes    942 Mbits/sec
These are the chips I was talking about. I've had literally sub Mbit/sec
performance on a samba server because of these. Replace the driver,
blacklist 8169 and all is fine.

Steve

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