Linux-Router - 100mbps???

Tue Mar 19 08:34:21 PST 2002

Hello,

I have for more than a year now an old linux server (133MHZ, 16MB RAM),
which operates as a router and gateway to the internet for 3 Windows
clients. Yes, i agree...this is not a very "good" server - anyway, i haven't
had any problems with it in the past. It worked well (Internet, LAN etc.)

But now, i have a really confusing problem:
I wanted to download some files from it and suddenly i remarked, that there
is only a 10mbps instead of 100mbps connection between the server and all
windows clients (CuteFTP -> ca. 1200KB/s). This made me wonder, because i
had a Davicom 9102 in it, which supported 10/100 mbit/s. I looked at the
10/100 switch, which paradoxically indicated a 100 MBits connection. I use
Kernel 2.2.16 and so I compiled updated drivers...with no success, the
connection remained 10 mbps.
Okay, so i changed the davicom card with a realtek (rtl8139A) card from one
of the windows clients. But same picture: mii-diag, mii-tool and the switch
"said" there is a negotiated 100baseTx-FDX card with "link ok". Though, the
data transfer was about 1200KB/s only!
I was really confused...
now i used rtl8139-diag and - i don't know why - this prog says, that i have
a "10mbps half duplex card" with auto-negotiation disabled, even though the
other progs like mii-diag say something different...
Then i decided to use TTCP to get clearness. And the result was: Between the
windows clients there is a connection about 11.000KB/s (in other words ca.
100mbps), between a windows client and the server is something about
3800KB/s. So more than 10 mbps but not 100 mbps.

UUh? what's that now? Is the server "too old" for 100 mbps? Is somebody out
there, who has got a solution for this problem? P.S: I even used an
expensive SMC Ethernet II of a friend for testing...the ttcp result remains
3800 KB/s!
P.P.S: In the system there is a second ethernet interface for the connection
with the DSL modem. its an old ne2000 compatible. Could this be the problem?
There aren't any collisions, says ifconfig....

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Outputs:

ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:39:18:69
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e0:4c39:1869/10 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe39:1869/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:4 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000

./mii-diag
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #32:  1100 782d 0000 0000 05e1 45e1 0001 0000.
 The autonegotiated capability is 01e0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.
 Basic mode control register 0x1100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
 Your link partner advertised 45e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx
10baseT-
FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control.
   End of basic transceiver information.

cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Acer Labs M1489 (rev 0).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device   4, function  0:
    VGA compatible device: S3 Inc. Vision 964-P (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000].
  Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.
Late
ncy=32.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8800000 [0xf8800000].

./rtl8139-diag -aaeemmf
rtl8139-diag.c:v2.05 1/28/2002 Donald Becker (becker at scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0x6000.
RealTek chip registers at 0x6000
 0x000: 394ce000 00006918 88010000 42000000 0010a03c 0010a03c 0010a03c
0010a03c
 0x020: 006c0000 006c0600 006c0c00 006c1200 00700000 0d0a0000 b298b288
0000c07f
 0x040: 73000400 00009c0e 3cf7f940 00000000 006c1400 00000000 0000c180
00100000
 0x060: 1100f00f 05e1782d 000145e1 00000000 00000004 000207c0 78fa8388
a538de43.
  No interrupt sources are pending.
 The chip configuration is 0x14 0x6c, MII full-duplex mode.
Decoded EEPROM contents:
   PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139.
   PCI Subsystem IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139.
   PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64.
x020: 006c  General purpose pins --  direction 0xe1  value 0x11.
  Station Address 00:E0:4C:39:18:69.
  Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x4c / 0xc2.
 EEPROM active region checksum is 0967.
EEPROM contents (64 words):
0x00:  8129 10ec 8139 10ec 8139 4020 e111 e000
0x08:  394c 6918 4c14 f7c2 0001 8388 78fa 070a
0x10:  de43 a538 0000 0000 de43 0000 de43 0000
0x18:  de43 a438 0000 0000 de43 0000 de43 0000
0x20:  0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
0x28:  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
0x30:  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
0x38:  ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
 The RTL8139 does not use a MII transceiver.
 It does have internal MII-compatible registers:
   Basic mode control register   0x1100.
   Basic mode status register    0x782d.
   Autonegotiation Advertisement 0x05e1.
   Link Partner Ability register 0x45e1.
   Autonegotiation expansion     0x0001.
   Disconnects                   0x0000.
   False carrier sense counter   0x0000.
   NWay test register            0x0004.
   Receive frame error count     0x0000.
 MII PHY #-1 transceiver registers:
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled!
   Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
 Basic mode status register 0x0000 ... 0000.
   Link status: not established.
   Capable of <Warning! No media capabilities>.
   Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 This transceiver has no vendor identification.
 I'm advertising 0000:
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   Using an unknown (non 802.3) encapsulation.
 Link partner capability is 0000:.
   Negotiation did not complete.

 mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Die Operation wird nicht unterstützt