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From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com>
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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, hardware@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:38:16 EST
Subject: Re: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations
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Rodney Grimes recommended:

> XX. ASI ASUS-PCI/I-P55TP4N  Motherboard w/256K 8nS PBurst SRAM cache   $ 210.00
> XX. TMG EFA18215 EFA PCI Ethernet Card, 10BaseT & BNC, DC21040         $  85.00
Note: lots o' useful information omitted.

This is a Triton board, isn't it?  We have had a horrible time with 
an ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE and an SMC PCI network card that I think uses 
the DC21040 chipset.  Unfortunately, for this apllication we are 
running (please, don't hit me!) SCO Open Server.

A typical netstat -i shows:
> netstat -i                                    
Name  Mtu   Network     Address         Ipkts    Ierrs Opkts   Oerrs Coll
net1  1500  192.2.2     meddml          11852554 120  12836553 275265 138074
lo0   8232  loopback    localhost       149531   0     149531   0     0

A machine on the same subnet with the ASUS Neptune board and an EISA 
network card has no such problem with Ierrs Oerrs or Collisions.  

I know this doesn't have much bearing on FreeBSD but I would 
appreciate any advice you could give.  Would the TP4N work better?
Would the TMG card be a better choice than SMC?

If I could use FreeBSD on this machine I would (and I bet it would 
solve our problems ;) ).

Thanks.
                                   
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