From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 29 22:29:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA20017 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:29:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from matlock.mindspring.com (matlock.mindspring.com [204.180.128.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA20002 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (root@borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by matlock.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA00654 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 01:28:49 -0500 Received: from firebrick.mindspring.com [204.180.128.159] by borg.mindspring.com with ESMTP id BAA07677 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 01:28:46 -0500 Received: (from news@localhost) by firebrick.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA03561; Fri, 1 Mar 1996 01:28:49 -0500 To: lists-freebsd-hackers@matlock.mindspring.com Path: usenet From: Robert Sanders Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: 100-baseT hub recommendation? Date: 01 Mar 1996 01:28:47 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 17 Distribution: mindspring Message-ID: References: <199602292159.NAA10325@Root.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: xena.mindspring.com X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.38/XEmacs 19.13 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:53:49 EST, David Greenman said: > The only known problem with the Intel cards is a bug in the NIC that causes > it to freeze up if you have garbage on your physical net - like plugging a > 10BaseT ethernet card into your 100BaseTX hub. ...or when you reboot your ethernet switch. This happened to us twice during our evaluation of a BayNet 100bT switch. I think we'll stick to the DEC-based cards. By the way, the fxp driver isn't terribly well documented, and I don't see an obvious way to force 100Mbps vs 10, or full duplex vs half except possibly by recompilation. That's another advantage of the DEC-based boards (drivers, at least). thanks, -- Robert