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Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728184600.10936A-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> from Max Khon at "Jul 28, 97 06:48:58 pm"
To: max@iclub.nsu.ru (Max Khon)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:10:41 +0930 (CST)
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Max Khon writes:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
>
>> I don't have access to a current Linux kernel tree (as getting such an
>> animal requires real effort, as opposed to the FreeBSD tree 8), so I can't
>> check offhand and see if they actually report these errors to the console.
>
> but under FreeBSD (unlike Linux) networking sometimes is very slow
> (~30-50K/s via ftp)

I'm sure this happens under Linux too, like it sometimes happens under
any operating system.  It's a bug, probably in the configuration.

Greg