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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 00:24:23 +0200
From:      "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc:        "'Normand Leclerc'" <leclercn@videotron.ca>, "'Bert Driehuis'" <bert_driehuis@nl.compuware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ip_divert blues (was natd blues)
Message-ID:  <20010530002423.A1555@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <031001c0e889$a557eb60$0a01a8c0@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:52:24AM %2B1200
References:  <20010529235328.A1394@freebie.demon.nl> <031001c0e889$a557eb60$0a01a8c0@den2>

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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:52:24AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> :: There has been a lot of debate on the Intel cards lately as 
> :: well. Don't
> :: recall the details. 
> 
> That was the driver change, wasn't it? Requires the use of mii-bus now.

Not completely. Some undocumented things were enabled in the phy chip for
use on the fxp (...) driver. Which seem to break the xl driver :-(

> :: I, for one, am quite happy with the 3Com 
> :: 3c905-TX.
> :: Apart from PR: kern/27722 that is ;-)
> 
> I experienced network dropouts with one of those... no problems
> whatsoever with an Intel NIC. My usual hardware supplier say they keep a
> stash of Intel NICs for UNIX customers, as it's the preferred card for
> them.

My laptop has an Intel nic and that works fine, I agree. I have not had bad
network problems with the 3COMs. YMMV it seems

Wilko

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