From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 20:26:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA03587 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solar.os.com (craigs@solar.os.com [199.232.136.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03567; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) id XAA31028; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 23:33:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 23:33:07 -0400 From: Craig Shrimpton Subject: Re: Slow Etherlink To: Terry Lambert cc: Jeffrey Barber , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199609170202.TAA03421@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > It means it can't transmit and receive at the same time. This is a card > "feature", and if you haven't seen it before, your other OS has been > lying to you (or it's one of the drivers that needs updated). > > In general, SIMPLEX, if capable of being fixed via a driver interface > (usually it is not, as noted above), will only affect unidirectional > throughput, generally out of the machine, and generally only for real > data transferred (ie: it's not your "ping" problem, whatever your "ping" > What cards are "synchronous?" I use SMC EtherPower PCI cards (de0) because they are basically plug and play under FreeBSD. I put 3 in a FBSD router box and they all worked first try automagically! Any idea if the SMC drivers are updateable? Craig +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Craig Shrimpton | e-mail: craigs@os.com | | Orbit Systems | information: info@os.com | | Worcester, MA 508.753.8776 | http://www.os.com/ | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+