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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:19:02 +0200 (IST)
From:      Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
To:        Miklos Niedermayer <mico@bsd.hu>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sendto: No buffer space available
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104022014280.32079-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010402185645.A241@fmdb.c3.hu>

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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Miklos Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi Roman!
>
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:44:26PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote:
>
> > > I had this problem with a 3C509B card when pushing a lot of data
> > > through to a slower machine on my network.  ifconfig ep0 down; ifconfig
> > > ep0 up fixed the problem when it occurred, however it would occur a
> > > number of times a day.  I ultimately replaced the 3C509B.
> >
> > I've 3c905B xl(4). I hadn't had any problems with it before I received
> > ADSL modem.
> > Ideas, anyone?
>
> Well, see another thread ("Network performance question").  3Com 905 does the
> same thing for me.  It's... hmm.  Evil.  I bought some cheap RTL 8139's and
> they're working fine without problems. (Well, I didn't say they're the best
> NIC's but they work for me, a lot better than expected.)

Perhaps the xl(4) or mii is evil? We've bunch of these cards working with
Solaris 2.6/x86, Linux and NT, flawlessly AFAIK.
Donald Becker as of Linux drivers stated that it's a nice piece of hw as
far as I remember. He had some dedicated webpages somewhere at nasa.gov.

fxp(4) on the other hand is rumored to intervene with vinum's raid5... :(

--Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
[ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]


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