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Cc: 'Benjamin Rosenblum' <ben@benswebs.com>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver,
 device polling issues :-((]
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:

>I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people are
>(not) having success.  As em(4) supports an entire family of products,
>rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or other
>gotchas the driver needs to address.  It certainly wouldn't be the first
>occurance of revision-specific bugs.
>
>  
>
I would also not discount motherboard / PCI speed related issues.

Pete