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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:40:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Khaled Daham <khaled@mailbox.telia.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   DE-500BA problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.990812102100.4785A-100000@mailbox.telia.net>

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Hello!

I have 3 machines with digital DE-500 ethernet cards
One machine has DE-500AA and is working perfectly ..
The two other machines have DE-500BA cards and
in 100BaseTX/full-duplex netstat reports errors and collisions 

            input        (Total)           output
   packets  errs      bytes    packets  errs      bytes colls
        84     0      17128        192     0      82128     0
       392     0     408687        106     3      85912     3
       239     0     216316        221     2      69636     4
       112     0      86087          0     0      58206     0
        78     0      16203        106     1      66902     0

Ive replaced cables,switched cards ( these machines have 2 nic's each
, but im only using one at the moment ) and switched ports on the catalyst 
5000 .. 

newsb.telia.net# uname -a
FreeBSD newsb.telia.net 3.1-19990219-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990219-STABLE
#0: Mon Feb 22 16:31:18 GMT 1999   
root@newsb.telia.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS i386

(Yes its due to an upgrade)

newsc.telia.net# uname -a
FreeBSD newsc.telia.net 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Aug 11
12:53:00 CEST 1999 root@newsb.telia.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS_KERNEL
i386

the cards are recognized as this on both machines ( the DE500-AA has a
21140 chip )

de0: <Digital 21143 Fast Ethernet> irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
de0: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
de0: address 00:00:f8:10:38:73
de1: <Digital 21143 Fast Ethernet> irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0
de1: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
de1: address 00:00:f8:10:42:4d

Any hints on what could be causing the errors & collisions ?
if the driver is at fault here I can test patches as one machine
is not used in production at all .. I know that bsd/os had problems
with the DE500-BA cards aswell , but that problem resulted in a 
freezing machine on heavy netload .. 

/Khaled, Telia Network Services

Mail:   khaled@telia.net
Cell:   070-6785492
Work:   08-4567281

:hacker: /n./  [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]



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