Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:54:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010302353390.6622-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net>
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask you > not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - it's severely > broken and has all kinds of timing problems that can crash boxes at > predictable moments (some boxes crash when you ifconfig, some crash > when you run tcpdump [probably on the switch to PROMISC]). Slower > boxes seem to work better. I've ported the NetBSD driver. I avoid looking at Linux code as much as possible. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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