Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:31:09 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Dawson <md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Cc: Alan Danker <thought@teleport.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pci bus ethernet cards Message-ID: <17578.809353869@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:04:10 BST." <8kDMDuL0VyTn1VgClg@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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In message <8kDMDuL0VyTn1VgClg@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, Mark Dawson writes: >I have seen very high (80%) packet loss in a Gateway 2000 P5-75 using >the SMC 9332 card at 100bTx. SMC tell me it is likely that the >Gateway's PCI bus is not up to specification. Gateway have yet to >comment on this. >Has anyone else seen this behaviour with this card - does it arise with >all cards based on the 21140 chip? Nope. Not on the ASUS motherboards (the Neptune ones ISTR) that Walnut Creek use... 3 FreeBSD machines have them in them, 1 router, 1 server and 1 personal box. The personal box suffered packet loss problems, although I think that was tracked down to a cabling problem. Gary
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