From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 30 20:55:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA9137B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA34456; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:54:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:54:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Peter van Dijk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? In-Reply-To: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask you > not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - it's severely > broken and has all kinds of timing problems that can crash boxes at > predictable moments (some boxes crash when you ifconfig, some crash > when you run tcpdump [probably on the switch to PROMISC]). Slower > boxes seem to work better. I've ported the NetBSD driver. I avoid looking at Linux code as much as possible. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message