Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:28:56 +0100 From: Martin Stiemerling <Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de> To: cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DGE-500SX Gigabit Ethernet Message-ID: <12740000.1015000136@elgar> In-Reply-To: <3C7F54B2.5040300@cc.kmu.edu.tw> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202271342201.39478-100000_control.edvz.uni-linz.a c.at@ns.sol.net> <3C7F54B2.5040300@cc.kmu.edu.tw>
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--On Freitag, M=E4rz 01, 2002 18:15:14 +0800 Chih-Chang Hsieh=20 <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw> wrote: > Ferdinand.Goldmann@zid.uni-linz.ac.at wrote: > >> A colleague and I have tried getting a DGE-500SX to work >> under FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. >> > We had tried it on 4.4-STABLE. > > When we use it to connect to Nortel 8600 GBIC, the TX/RX LEDs The problem is perhaps that the Nortel device uses a long range card (look=20 for abbreviation LX) and the DGE-500SX is a short range card (=3DSX). Cheers Martin > > on the switch are off. But when we use two DGE-500SX cards to > > connect to each other, it works but with low throughputs > > (about 13 MB/s). > > P.S.: We plug it on a 32-bits PCI slot. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. -- Network Laboratories = Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de IPv4: http://www.ccrle.nec.de IPv6: = http://www.ipv6.ccrle.nec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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