From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 11:44:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.sanyusan.se (enterprise.sanyusan.se [212.209.55.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCAF37BB42 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anders@enterprise.sanyusan.se) Received: (from anders@localhost) by enterprise.sanyusan.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA95739; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:43:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anders) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:43:46 +0200 From: Anders Andersson To: Adrian Gonzalez Cc: Anders Andersson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAT/Gateway routing problems? Message-ID: <20000405204346.A95723@enterprise.sanyusan.se> References: <20000404134336.A35647@enterprise.sanyusan.se> <3.0.6.32.20000405132544.00956810@globalpc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000405132544.00956810@globalpc.net>; from adrianbsd@globalpc.net on Ons, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:25:44pm -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on Ons, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:25:44pm -0500, Adrian Gonzalez wrote: > > I've had similar problems with 3com 3c509 NICs. In certain configurations > they seem to either drop packets or just somehow manage to be terribly > slow. The ep driver used to be described as "slow/buggy" in the kernel > config files, so I usually try to stay away from them on FreeBSD systems. > > If you have any other non 3c509 NICs handy, I'd recommend you try swapping > them. The ep driver have been dramaticly improved in 4.0. But yes, I know that these cards arent optimal. I have tested with another box with 3Com 905 cards and got almost as bad performance, that is why I suspect some other error. -- Anders Andersson anders@sanyusan.se Sanyusan International AB http://www.sanyusan.se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message