From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 14:24:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA27664 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA27656 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA06837; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:24:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA06236; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:24:57 -0800 Message-Id: <199512072224.OAA06236@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Andrew Webster" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explain this! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Dec 95 14:12:56 GMT." <199512071911.OAA00873@vhf.dataradio.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 14:24:57 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On a hunch, I put the SMC8013 back into the new machine, and now it >works as fast (maybe faster) than it used to! > >This leaves me wondering: > 1. Is the 3C509 card a piece of junk? > It works okay on my dos box with the SMC card in the BSD box! No. > 2. Is the ep0 driver corrupting data packets? > I tried all sorts of MTU sizes on the dos box, it still didn't > work any better. Probably. > 3. Is the ep0 driver dropping ack packets from the FTP client? > Don't know. Probably. There is a serious bug in the driver that causes it to reset the card every second (it botches the handling of the watchdog timer). It likely has other problems, too. I'm going to either fix it or rewrite it - I haven't decided which yet. -DG