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Date:      Sat, 5 May 2001 10:11:27 -0700
From:      Michael Han <mikehan@mikehan.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel 82562 fxp problem
Message-ID:  <20010505101127.B39338@giles.mikehan.com>
In-Reply-To: <1d37ftkfr8gcp1jcg5vu3dosmbbjdn6s31@4ax.com>; from mike@sentex.net on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:27:35AM -0400
References:  <20010504140519.A33085@giles.mikehan.com> <SEN.989011534.645154124@news.sentex.net> <1d37ftkfr8gcp1jcg5vu3dosmbbjdn6s31@4ax.com>

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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 01:27:35AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> This sounds like the same problem I have been reporting to jlemon with his
> version of the driver. Same type of motherboard/chipset/issue.  A plain old
> PCI version of the nic is just fine in the same box with the same drivers.
> I am guessing that the problem is somehow related to flow control in the
> IBM switch I am using as the problem does not seem to be there when the
> card is in my compaq switch.  When I get the device timeouts, 

Given the fact that I can pick up all kinds of stuff on the ether
using tcpdump(8), I'd have to conclude I must be on a hub, not a
switch. That or I'm on a monitor port (or the equivalent) on a switch.
Weird. So now I think I've been on a plain hub and a 10/100 hub, but
not a switch so far.
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