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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:21:24 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        dg@root.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE
Message-ID:  <20000716142124.A14427@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700
References:  <200007141707.KAA16976@implode.root.com> <200007142125.OAA05782@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:25:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > >fxp is not supported on the Alpha, and known to be unreliable there.  
> > >Contact the maintainer or use a different card.  FWIW, this actually 
> > >sounds like an issue that's been seen on x86 as well.
> > 
> >    It does? I've never heard of a bug report like this for x86 and in fact I'm
> > not aware of any bugs in the driver for x86.
> 
> It's been described many times, actually.  It sounds a lot like a bad 
> interaction between either the card or the driver and the hub/switch at 
> the other end, however it's shown up on a reasonably regular basis.

At least I can say that the card/switch is not the problem here.
The card and the switch are fixed configured to 100M/full-duplex.
There are several x86 FreeBSD hosts with fxp cards running at the same
switch without any problems.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de



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