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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:47:10 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Johan Allard <allard@netman.se>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: zp0 multicasting question
Message-ID:  <199801291547.IAA10801@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE>
References:  <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE>

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> I am sitting here and experimenting with my laptop with an 3com 3c589D
> card. It works fine with the zp driver from 2.2.5-RELEASE but it doesn't
> have any MULTICAST option set in ifconfig.

Nope, but if you used the PCCARD version it would have support.

> Therefore I installed the
> PAO-971211 and everything compiled perfectly.

You didn't need the PAO patches to get the PCCARD support, but oh
well. :)

> After som testing i got everything configured and running. The only
> problem I have now is that i get really, really bad performance on my
> network card. During a regular tcpdump the kernel drops aprox 50% of
> all packets. Does anyone have any idea?

I'm not sure what if_ep.c driver PAO uses, but if it's the driver in
-current that might signify a problem.  It was recently 'simplified',
but it turns out the simplification has caused some performance problems
that others have noted.


Nate



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