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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:04:34 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ian Huang <ihuang@mynet.ml.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VX driver in current acting up?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980328160234.403A-100000@mynet.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980328153340.387A-100000@mynet.ml.org>

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After replace the 3c905 with a SMC card, both incoming and outgoing
connections seemed fine. I guess the vx0 driver is a bit buggy?

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having the similar problem with my 3c905 on a 2.2.6-STABLE box. The
> outgoing transfer is having no problem (~1MB/sec) but the incoming
> connection is extremely slow at ~200K/sec. I'll pop in a SMC ethernet card
> and see if the connection improves.
> 
> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have been getting funny behaviour from the VX driver (I have a
> > 3com 3c900).
> > 
> > Occaisionally (randomly) the card/driver goes into "slow mode", and
> > gives ridiculously slow respose on my local ethernet:
> > 
> > PING gratis.grondar.za (196.7.18.133): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=989.080 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=980.119 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=970.066 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=960.154 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=950.969 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=940.152 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=930.114 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=920.143 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=910.234 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=900.115 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=890.098 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=880.065 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=870.060 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=860.088 ms
> > 64 bytes from 196.7.18.133: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=850.742 ms
> > 
> > Notice how the times slowly improve by 10ms per echo? Strange.
> > 
> > Does anyone else see this? At work we have a machine running this
> > card and this driver(?) under RELENG_2_2 (STABLE) and there are no
> > problems.
> > 
> > The only fix I know of is a reboot. (ifconfig vx0 up; ifconfig vx0 down
> > does not work).
> > 
> > M
> > -- 
> > Mark Murray
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