From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 14 2: 7:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B585315273 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17061; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:08:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:08:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: sigma@junglist.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3-RC and 3com 509 Driver In-Reply-To: <37DE0B50.5D3C0F8A@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Yacine Benzine wrote: > It's been awhile since I tried one (well, not *that* long... 3.0-Release) > but I was seriously lagged (horrible ping responses to my gateway) and could > never download faster than 1k/s on my adsl connection. I even remember > having to maintain a constant ping to my gateway so that connections (IRC, > web, etc.) wouldn't time out. I now use 3Com's 905B-TX cards and they work > flawlessly. I recently helped someone set up a FreeBSD nat gateway to his cable modem line using an old 3c509 and it worked fine with the ep driver (after we disabled pnp). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message