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To: Mark Dawson <md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
cc: Alan Danker <thought@teleport.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: pci bus ethernet cards 
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 13:31:09 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.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