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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:11:51 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      "Bror 'Count' Heinola" <count@key.hole.fi>
To:        davidg@root.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD with 100Mbit ethernet card?
Message-ID:  <199607151011.NAA08751@key.hole.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199607151005.DAA02830@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jul 15, 96 03:05:42 am

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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 :(


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