From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 15 03:11:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA25584 for current-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lassie.eunet.fi (lassie.eunet.fi [192.26.119.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA25578 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 03:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from key.hole.fi by lassie.eunet.fi with SMTP id AA02627 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:11:52 +0300 Received: (from count@localhost) by key.hole.fi (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA08751; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:11:51 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Bror 'Count' Heinola" Message-Id: <199607151011.NAA08751@key.hole.fi> Subject: Re: FreeBSD with 100Mbit ethernet card? To: davidg@root.com Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:11:51 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607151005.DAA02830@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jul 15, 96 03:05:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman taisi sanoa: > > Can you clarify about "can't transmit very fast"? I get excellent > performance with the card myself - I'm using them in all of the machines > I have here. Well, when I transfer files from an Ultra 1 with fast ethernet I can 'put' them at over 5Mbytes/sec but when I 'get' them from the BSD box they don't come faster than about 1.5Mbytes/sec. Did you see my mail about it in freebsd-hardware? I'm forwarding it to you anyway... > Right, it's the same driver. The only known problem is that I don't have a > work-around for a bug in the chip that causes it to lock up if it receives > garbage (can happen when you unplug the cable from the card). There's no > way to detect the hang except to notice that nothing is being received for > awhile. Newer revs of the chip don't have this problem. That's a nasty bug :( -- Bror 'Count' Heinola % count@key.hole.fi % http://pobox.com/~count/ Pengerkatu 13b A5 % IRC: Count NIC: BH271 % FI-00530 HELSINKI % Work: bror@sms.fi % Roads? Where we're going, Cell: +358-40-5533-554 % Santa Monica Software % we don't need roads.