From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 14:45:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from piranha.amis.net (piranha.amis.net [212.18.32.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC80637C0E6 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blaz@amis.net) Received: from titanic.medinet.si (titanic.medinet.si [212.18.32.66]) by piranha.amis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502145D37; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:45:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:45:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan X-Sender: blaz@titanic.medinet.si To: Jim Flowers Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsd 4.0Release In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does this indicate that my new hardware is probably not going to work with > fbsd 4.0? [snip] > rl0: port 0xde00-0xdeff mem [snip] I notice that you use a RealTek card in your router. First of all, there is a bug in the RealTek driver in 4.0 that crashes the system (more info on that in PR kern/17582), this is probably what you are seeing. You should either upgrade the driver or upgrade the whole system to 4.0. Second, reconsider your choice of network card. I quote Bill Paul's comment in the rl driver sources: * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. ... * It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent * performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or * some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it. I would think twice before using such a card in router.... Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message