Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:49:27 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> To: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org (Lyndon Nerenberg) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3C509B Combo card Message-ID: <199801142349.RAA00301@unix.tfs.net> In-Reply-To: <199801140514.WAA11772@ve7tcp.ampr.org> from Lyndon Nerenberg at "Jan 13, 98 10:14:40 pm"
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In reply: > Okay, I'm stumped. I've run 509B's (and plain old 509's) since they > came out, in a lot of busy production critical servers, running FreeBSD > and just about anything else for x86 that networked. I've found them to > be nothing but rock solid reliable. > > Do we know who originated the "buggy" comment in the kernel config? > Would someone like to volunteer to track back through CVS and see > who originated it? Would the originator care to explain the comment? > > Personally, I think the whole "buggy" statement is bogus, and has been > for quite some time. Lacking evidence to the contrary the comment should > be squelched before this business of buggy 509's reaches the status > of urban legend :-) > > --lyndon (getting 800+KB/s on his 509's at home, at work at ...) i do recall a discussion concerning some problems with promiscious mode on 509's some time ago... try -digest, circa '95... i forget the details though... kewl callsign! was that the luck of the draw, or do they have a vanity callsign system in canada? jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+
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