From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 1 22:30: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B694137B71A; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (cs-wla2-p43.lafn.org [192.168.16.43] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f325U2L44996; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org> References: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:29:38 -0700 To: Mike Smith From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: Network performance question Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , "Jason T. Luttgens" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:25 -0700 4/1/01, Mike Smith wrote: > > > FreeBSD kinda disappointed me. It gets ~1000 interface errors on about >> > 514000 packets. I switched the 3COM card out for a NetGear FA311 (sis >> > driver). After receiving ~310000 packets, the network goes down (can't >> > ping/telnet anywhere). At that point I have to ifconfig down and up the >> > interface to get it back. > >You're disappointed in *FreeBSD* because of this? These are *hardware* >failures you're describing here... I am not convinced yet. I have a number of FreeBSD 3.5-Stable machines using the Netgear FA310TX boards that run with heavy loads. Most of them currently have over 6 months since the last boot and I never see the above problems. I don't run tcpdump for long periods because I don't have the disk space to hold it. But it never seems to drop packets. I don't know the differences between the 310 and 311 boards. The 310 uses the pn driver in 3.5 and the dc driver on 4.2. I just am updating my test system to 4.2 and have not been able to do any long term tests yet. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message