Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:29:38 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, "Jason T. Luttgens" <lucky@lansters.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network performance question Message-ID: <f0433011ab6edbc7d0081@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org> References: <200104011725.f31HPSC00996@mass.dis.org>
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At 10:25 -0700 4/1/01, Mike Smith wrote: > > > FreeBSD kinda disappointed me. It gets ~1000 interface errors on about >> > 514000 packets. I switched the 3COM card out for a NetGear FA311 (sis >> > driver). After receiving ~310000 packets, the network goes down (can't >> > ping/telnet anywhere). At that point I have to ifconfig down and up the >> > interface to get it back. > >You're disappointed in *FreeBSD* because of this? These are *hardware* >failures you're describing here... I am not convinced yet. I have a number of FreeBSD 3.5-Stable machines using the Netgear FA310TX boards that run with heavy loads. Most of them currently have over 6 months since the last boot and I never see the above problems. I don't run tcpdump for long periods because I don't have the disk space to hold it. But it never seems to drop packets. I don't know the differences between the 310 and 311 boards. The 310 uses the pn driver in 3.5 and the dc driver on 4.2. I just am updating my test system to 4.2 and have not been able to do any long term tests yet. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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