Those with DHCP problems on OS4 should give this a spin. If DHCP works more reliably with this driver we will know the eth3com.device is at fault versus something in the TCP/IP stack.

Nice!
I hope the speed of the RTL8169 driver would be better in future versions.

@ AmigaPapst

Hey... it's still 150% of the 8139 speed.. well.. at least for download..

Seriously, i'm hunting for optimizations since months, but nothing i tried (and i tried a *LOT*) really improved things.. so right now i think it could just be the A1 being not capable of transferring at higher rates per second.. (and others think that too who probably know the A1 far better than me)

After all, i have to transfer a sh*tload of small data chunks (i.e. the Ethernet packets of around 1.5 kB!) while other drivers, like for ide/sata/scsi, can make use of huge PCI bursts.. so this might explain, why the 8169 is that lame..

I'm thinking about porting the driver to Aros to test it on x86 hardware, where the 8169 is known to reach up to 30 MB/sec in both directions... well, everything a question of time..

Happy to see newer improved drivers come out.

Keep up the good work