Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:22:46 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: jon@welearn.com.au Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: curious about memory report usingfreebsd v3.3-release Message-ID: <14622.50374.168438.456842@trooper.velocet.net>
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I had quite a few problems with that SMC "tx" network card under 3.2 and 3.3. We eventually ditched them. We found that we had to ifconfig down then ifconfig up them every so often, or their performance would decrease rapidly. This may be fixed in 3.4-STABLE, but I have not checked. Really, I'm only trusting rl and fxp drivers right now. It's not scientific, but I have experiences that the de, dc, tx, ep and xl drivers can be broken under at least my circumstances. The dc and de drivers are particularly strange. I used to use a lot of de cards back when kinston made them with the 21141. Then a number of cards were made with the 21142 --- these tended not to work with de. Then we started using the DLink 4 port cards with the 21143's on them --- they appear to work well with the occaisional strangeness. However, recent 21143 cards from acer work "almost" ... but we have NFS performance problems with machines we've built with them. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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