Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:48:52 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging with 3C589D-COMBO on 4.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20010312174852.T20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:20:20PM -0500 References: <3AAC4C03.13000DE@babbleon.org> <3AAC4E83.2C281B90@babbleon.org>
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 23:20 -0500, The Babbler wrote:
>
> Anybody else got a promiscuous 3c589d?
I had quite a few tcpdump(1) sessions with a 3c589D and FreeBSD
3.3 and 4.[012], so I assume promiscous mode works fine.
The only problem I had with this card is that it defaults to the
wrong media type and doesn't recognize TP wiring, instead it
always falls back to BNC. So I have to force 10baseT selection.
> When I try to enable bridging, it shuts down my ep0 networking
> entirely, so I lose all my networking; if I unplug & plug the
> card it gets address 0.0.0.0, presumably because DHCP fails;
> and if I try to turn off bridging after the fact, the machine
> hangs hard & I have to power off.
Do you 'ifconfig down' the card *prior* to removal? For my own
sake I would get used to some sort of this behaviour ... :> Just
make sure nothing's using the card when you unplug it instead of
dazzling all the drivers / apps with events there's no card for.
> PS: In my experience, though FreeBSD has lots of advantages, it
> is *much* less stable than Linux. It's crashed -way- more than
> Linux ever did; more even than Windows does at work (of course
> I push Windows a lot less). And I've had it lose files a
> couple of times when it came back up after a hard crash like
> that.
>
> Is this at all normal?
> Is it at all normal for folks with laptops?
No. And no. You state the reason for your "stable Windows"
yourself. And in comparison to Linux it must be some
configuration issue. Setup correctly (and given decent hardware)
both FreeBSD and Linux run fine. While FreeBSD is said to cope
better (smooth) with heavy load.
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