From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 13:54:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [209.167.225.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDED14CC0; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@trooper.velocet.ca) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by trooper.velocet.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA32798; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:54:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14227.36987.537390.519829@trooper.velocet.ca> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:54:19 -0400 (EDT) To: "Tim Pushor" Cc: , Subject: Out of buffer space - REVISITED In-Reply-To: <006801bed227$664d92f0$9828f99f@shl.com> References: <006801bed227$664d92f0$9828f99f@shl.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Pushor writes: Tim> I have since discovered that I can simply do a ifconfig tl0 down, Tim> and an ifconfig tl0 up, and it will begin working again. Another Tim> I *really* hope someone can help, as I have put myself out on a Tim> limb to get FreeBSD in active use here. My first reaction to this, given the up/down business is that you should just get someone onsite to pop in two PCI NE-2000 clones. A large number of new network drivers appeared in 3.0/3.1 and I've found the tx0, for one, to be very buggy. Buggy enough that I can't believe that anyone else is using it. (unless you undefine EARLY_RX, moderate amounts of traffic will turn this innocent looking ethernet card into a delay adapter... holding packets for arbitrary amounts of time. I have also found that the driver truncates skip packets.) I have found the following drivers to be stable: ed0 (ne2000) de0 (DEC tulip) I have found the following drivers to be aggrivatingly buggy: ep0 (3com) - random reboots with traffic when > 1 interface tx0 (tulip clone from SMC) - see above I have not used other drivers (I have used the tl0 once, but can't really comment). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message