Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:53:19 +0100 From: "Jonathan Clarke" <jonathan@phillipoux.net> To: "Christophe Simon" <titof3000@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3c905B drivers Message-ID: <006201c2a06c$a4ecf520$0201a8c0@bluesheeps> References: <F96uWutC1xNqkt7inqT00030464@hotmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Christophe Simon" <titof3000@hotmail.com> To: <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: Re: 3c905B drivers > > > Does anyone know about an instability in the 3c90x drivers from 3com on > > > freeBSD ? > > > >What problems? I've been using 3C905b for years without any problem. > > I have a problem of network instability. I use FreeBSD 4.7 as a file server > to serve windows machines with samba 3, and i use postfix as mail server. 10 > to 20 minutes after my server starts, the samba and postfix services fall > down and don't reply anymore. I am forced to restart my network by > /etc/netstart. I try to know if that problem comes from FreeBSD itself, or > if there can be a problem with the origina driver (i know there's some > under Linux...) I've heard of quite a severe a problem with rev. A 3COM 905B cards, something like this. It was corrected in rev. B or by a firmware/flash upgrade of some sort. You might want to look into this, though on the other I am not at all sure about this information... Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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