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Date:      Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:00:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To:        Max Khon <max@iclub.nsu.ru>
Cc:        grog@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles
Message-ID:  <199708051600.SAA05123@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:05:15 %2B0700 (NSS)
References:  <199707282240.IAA02358@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730140319.4464B-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>

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> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 grog@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
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> > > but under FreeBSD (unlike Linux) networking sometimes is very slow
> > > (~30-50K/s via ftp)
> > 
> > I'm sure this happens under Linux too, like it sometimes happens under
> > any operating system.  It's a bug, probably in the configuration.
> 
> this does not happen under Linux and Win95
> afair there were no troubles with these cards in 2.2-GAMMA

You need to enable bounce-buffers.  Or at least I had this problem
(LOOOW speed on the Lance in some cases) when I removed bounce-buffers
on a machine that shouldn't need it.  This was under 2.1.7, though.

Eivind.




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