From: wolfgang_no_spam@maxi-dsl.de   
      
   Hmmm, very silent here. I hope I'm not the last man standing.   
      
   After a lot of fiddling with the kernel source code I have found a way   
   to establish a reliable and persistent network connection under   
   Slackware 11, Kernel 2.4.33.3. The solution to the puzzle here was to   
   build the network driver as a module, to load the module via   
   /etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice and assign a static ip configuration via   
   /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, ymmv.   
      
   Involved was a 9595A, P90, 256MB RAM, now with a 10/100 network link. A   
   big thank you to all who were involved in the driver development and   
   especially to Christian, who sent driver patches and was patient with me.   
      
   Here are the netio 1.30 client results.   
      
        		KB/s Tx    KB/s Rx   
   1KB Paket	6567,01    5229,21   
   2KB Paket	7499,88    5307,07   
   4KB Paket	7623,93    5288,49   
   8KB Paket	7545,33    5315,38   
   16KB Paket	7151,32    5326,32   
   32KB Paket	7668,42    5256,43   
      
   Wolfgang   
      
      
   Am 16.01.24 um 09:20 schrieb Christian Holzapfel:   
   > Wolfgang Gehl schrieb am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2024 um 00:26:09 UTC+1:   
   >> Looks like I need help. Is there a solution to this or do I have to go   
   >> back to Slackware 8 (Kernel 2.2.19)?   
   >>   
   >> Wolfgang   
   >   
   > The patch and C-file won't work with a 2.4 Kernel out of the box.   
   > I already started porting the sanremo.c to 2.4, but it's not final yet, I   
   have no patch and corrupted my 2.4 Linux partition >.<   
   > I can send it to you for further testing. It's not fully cleaned up, but   
   should compile and give a connection.   
   >   
   > Interestingly, the 2.4 Kernel seems to tackle some performance issues: It   
   now seems to hand the network subsystem buffers straight down to the card for   
   DMA.   
   > Seems to only profit in one direction, and degrade in the other.   
   >   
   > This is what I measured on an 8595 with Pentium 200, Kernel 2.2:   
   >   
   > NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.7   
   > (C) 1997-1999 Kai Uwe Rommel   
   >   
   > TCP/IP connection established.   
   > 1k packets: 	6726 k/sec   
   > 2k packets: 	8456 k/sec   
   > 4k packets: 	8741 k/sec   
   > 8k packets: 	8680 k/sec   
   > 16k packets: 	8586 k/sec   
   > 32k packets: 	7974 k/sec   
   >   
   > NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.7   
   > (C) 1997-1999 Kai Uwe Rommel   
   >   
   > TCP/IP connection established.   
   > 1k packets: 	6196 k/sec   
   > 2k packets: 	6175 k/sec   
   > 4k packets: 	6237 k/sec   
   > 8k packets: 	6250 k/sec   
   > 16k packets: 	6240 k/sec   
   > 32k packets: 	6172 k/sec   
   >   
   > And on the same system with a Kernel 2.4:   
   >   
   > NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.7   
   > (C) 1997-1999 Kai Uwe Rommel   
   >   
   > TCP/IP connection established.   
   > 1k packets: 	7415 k/sec   
   > 2k packets: 	7485 k/sec   
   > 4k packets: 	7809 k/sec   
   > 8k packets: 	7793 k/sec   
   > 16k packets: 	7689 k/sec   
   > 32k packets: 	7199 k/sec   
   >   
   > NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.7   
   > (C) 1997-1999 Kai Uwe Rommel   
   >   
   > TCP/IP connection established.   
   > 1k packets: 	6949 k/sec   
   > 2k packets: 	6900 k/sec   
   > 4k packets: 	6903 k/sec   
   > 8k packets: 	6900 k/sec   
   > 16k packets: 	6910 k/sec   
   > 32k packets: 	6886 k/sec   
   >   
      
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