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To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
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Subject: Re: slow connection 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Nov 1998 16:23:53 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 16:38:43 -0800
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>Presto!  The machine booted back up, and now my interfaces are both fast,
>as they should be.  I'm surprised I never noticed that before, although I
>normally try not to reboot my machine unless I have to :).  Anyhow, all
>seems to be well, now, and thanks to Chris for your suggestion.  Anyone
>care to speculate as to why this particular problem would cause my network
>to be slow, and not to just not work altogether?

   The driver probably recovers from lost ISA interrupts via a once a second
clock timer.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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