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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:57:46 +0100
From:      Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Etherexpress support?
Message-ID:  <20001031175746.E260@dataloss.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:57:11AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0010242138180.28000-100000@mail.clones.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010260053110.623-200000@sasami.jurai.net> <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet>

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 00:08 +0100, 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.
> 
> Which driver version are you talking about?  I didn't follow this
> stuff too closely (my EEPro100 always worked when not sitting in
> an Asus SP3 board which has problems of its own regarding PCI)
[snip]

We're talking about the old eexpress cards, not the eepro's.

eepro's rock :)

Greetz, Peter
-- 
dataloss networks
'/ignore-ance is bliss' - me
'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me


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