Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:03:00 -0600 From: mike grommet <mgrommet@insolwwb.net> To: "'Paul Richards'" <paul@originative.co.uk>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problems with this network card / driver? Message-ID: <A199D70FC96DD211AD10006097679261035984@ISIMAIL> In-Reply-To: <A199D70FC96DD211AD1000609767926103FF0B@ISIMAIL>
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Paul, my concern is I may be loosing data, or at some point that this network card will become a problem... either the card is junk, or the driver needs some looking at. when I transfer fairly large files, or the machines network interface is busy I get lots of dropped packet messages coming from the kernel (in this case the machine acts as my usenet news server and it reguarly misses packets @ around 30k/sec) Of course the problem is much much worse when the traffic is heavier... This A.M. I put in an intel ethernet 10/100 in the machine above and havent had any of the problems mentioned... I have similar problems with an identical machine / NIC running as a webserver... although the load hasnt reached high enough to cause problems regularly as its not a very busy server, i did have the same problems when transerring large files in general to the machine. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Paul Richards Sent: Monday, November 23, 1998 2:28 PM To: 'Mike Smith'; Mike Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Problems with this network card / driver? > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Smith [mailto:mike@smith.net.au] > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 9:11 PM > To: Mike > Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Problems with this network card / driver? > > > > Hi guys... using 3.0 release on 2 servers....3.0 reports > this particular > > card like this on boot > > > > lnc1: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 0x25 int a irq 14 on pci1.5.0 > > lnc1: PCnet-FAST address 00:60:94:57:4c:f2 > > Yeah. The lnc driver is pretty marginal at the moment. I'd avoid it > if at all possilble. I ran some tests at the local IBM > evaluation lab > and I wasn't too happy with the onboard ethernet. Try an Intel > EtherExpress Pro/100B instead if you're really concerned. Have you any specific details on why you think it's not working? It seems there's a bug been introduced recently relating to detecting cards that I'll look into but I'm not aware of any other problems with the driver that would make it necessary to avoid using it. In any case, I'm going to give the code an overhaul soon since I haven't looked at it for a few years so if you or anyone else has been having problems with this driver then now's the time to let me know :-) > > In any case should I be concerned at all? Like I said the > machine hums > > along perfectly but being the paranoid little guy that I > am, I want to know > > all the details before they > > reach up and bite me on the ass. > > If it's working OK, then it'll probably continue to work just fine. > It's quite likely that the BSD/OS driver just doesn't bother > to report > this error (which seems to indicate a very busy ethernet). This particular error report is perfectly normal and indicates a saturated network (assuming there aren't any bugs). It's true that one criticism that can be thrown at lnc is that it reports errors where many cards do not. I still claim that this is a good thing :-) Paul Richards Ph.D. Originative Solutions Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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