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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:41:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
To:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au
Subject:   Re: NIC drivers
Message-ID:  <199807091641.JAA05779@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) writes:

> Believe me, [the ep driver] 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.

That was not my experience.  We ran 4 3C509's in 1 box a few years
ago (FreeBSD 2.1.?), and hammered them pretty hard, and it all just
worked.

Granted, we did retire the cards, and the 486 box they were in, some
time ago.  The Intel cards and the fxp driver are great.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.

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