Date: 09 Jul 1998 16:31:39 +0200 From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers Message-ID: <rx47m1nyu2c.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> In-Reply-To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com's message of Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:56:36 -0400 References: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B5A@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes: > Although I don't know about the current state of the driver. There > was a period (early '95) when packet loss led to the hang of the > card and that's the reason why it was marked as "buggy" in LINT at > that time. This was fixed but this comment just was not cleaned up. Believe me, it still sucks. Search the archives (both the mailing list archives and the PR database) for "no buffer space", and/or "ep0". Basically, the driver is fine for telnet and mail, but wedges under sustained load. I can get it to hang without ever going above 20 kBps (160 kbps). Gimme an Intel EtherExpress. DES (not very proud owner of three 3c509) -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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