Hi Frank,

It seems that R6040 driver for some reason doesn't set desired speed and duplex mode.
We'll look into this issue.

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With best regards,
Vladimir Makhilev


> Dear QNX4 community,
> 
> i did some network perfomance tests on the Vortex 86DX chip using the Net.r6040 driver for the integrated ethernet 
part.
> This works very well in 100Mbit/s mode with two systems back to back transferring large files from ram disk to ram 
disk.
> The QNX version is 4.25.
> 
> But when forcing the driver to 10Mbit/s mode using the "-s10" option i still get 100Mbit/s as the perfomance is far 
above 10Mbit/s (e.g. 56Mbit/s in my setup) and the remote system still shows a 100Mbit/s link.
> 
> This is even more strange as the netinfo tool shows the desired speed.
> “Net.r6040 –s10 –l2 &”:  "netinfo -l" says the link is 10Mb/s HDX
> "Net.r6040 –l2 &":           "netinfo -l" says the link is 100Mb/s FDX 
> 
> I tried changing the speed online and also fixed in the sysconfig.5, reconnecting the network plug after a change and 
so on, but the problem always shows up.
> 
> Any idea or help on this is highly appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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Hi Frank,

Please try Net.r6040 driver from the attach. Speed and duplex mode settings should work now.

# cksum Net.r6040
4014220948 70995 Net.r6040

--
With best regards,
Vladimir Makhilev

> Dear QNX4 community,
> 
> i did some network perfomance tests on the Vortex 86DX chip using the Net.r6040 driver for the integrated ethernet 
part.
> This works very well in 100Mbit/s mode with two systems back to back transferring large files from ram disk to ram 
disk.
> The QNX version is 4.25.
> 
> But when forcing the driver to 10Mbit/s mode using the "-s10" option i still get 100Mbit/s as the perfomance is far 
above 10Mbit/s (e.g. 56Mbit/s in my setup) and the remote system still shows a 100Mbit/s link.
> 
> This is even more strange as the netinfo tool shows the desired speed.
> “Net.r6040 –s10 –l2 &”:  "netinfo -l" says the link is 10Mb/s HDX
> "Net.r6040 –l2 &":           "netinfo -l" says the link is 100Mb/s FDX 
> 
> I tried changing the speed online and also fixed in the sysconfig.5, reconnecting the network plug after a change and 
so on, but the problem always shows up.
> 
> Any idea or help on this is highly appreciated.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post111626
> To cancel your subscription to this discussion, please e-mail general-qnx4-unsubscribe@community.qnx.com
>