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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:23 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Sean Lyndersay <lynders@hcs.harvard.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 
Message-ID:  <199803310311.TAA12589@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:04:56 EST." <Pine.OSF.3.96.980330185755.24488B-100000@hcs.harvard.edu> 

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>> Check that your Ethernet card isn't using the resources of another device.
>> Slow Ethernet performance can sometimes be linked to sharing IRQs with
>> another device.
>
>All I have in there is an SB16, for which I didn't even have support
>compiled in. I'm probably going to pick up another card tonight and try
>it. Frankly I think this is a lot of trouble to go to, but I have no
>choice at this point.

   An SB16 is quite enough - it doesn't matter if support is compiled in
or not since the conflict is at the hardware level. I recall that SB16's
like to use irq 5 - which IRQ do you have your 3c509 set to?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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