From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 7 18:38:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E712737B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f282cVc29291; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:38:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel (fxp) replacement Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 21:38:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20010307171009.A25939@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 7 Mar 2001 18:38:44 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >< said: > >> Now that the fxp driver seems to be outdated,=20 > >Eh? What's ``outdated'' about it? Some of the newer revs are not supported / recognized. Also, there is = the flow control issue with some switches that result in SCB timeout errors. There were patches posted, but have not been committed. Lugi@FreeBSD.org also raised an issue with smaller packets not being able to forward at = full rate. There are also some VLAN patches that would be nice to see integrated. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message