From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 1 8:29:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tokyo.ccrle.nec.de (tokyo.ccrle.nec.de [195.37.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD51737B421 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from wallace.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de (root@wallace.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de [192.168.102.1]) by tokyo.ccrle.nec.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g21GT0Q55505; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:29:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de) Received: from imap.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de (imap.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de [192.168.102.11]) by wallace.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA10499; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:28:59 +0100 Received: from elgar (elgar.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de [192.168.102.180]) by imap.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de (Postfix on SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.0) with ESMTP id 8C55B28463; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:28:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:28:56 +0100 From: Martin Stiemerling To: cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DGE-500SX Gigabit Ethernet Message-ID: <12740000.1015000136@elgar> In-Reply-To: <3C7F54B2.5040300@cc.kmu.edu.tw> References: <3C7F54B2.5040300@cc.kmu.edu.tw> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Freitag, M=E4rz 01, 2002 18:15:14 +0800 Chih-Chang Hsieh=20 wrote: > Ferdinand.Goldmann@zid.uni-linz.ac.at wrote: > >> A colleague and I have tried getting a DGE-500SX to work >> under FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. >> > We had tried it on 4.4-STABLE. > > When we use it to connect to Nortel 8600 GBIC, the TX/RX LEDs The problem is perhaps that the Nortel device uses a long range card (look=20 for abbreviation LX) and the DGE-500SX is a short range card (=3DSX). Cheers Martin > > on the switch are off. But when we use two DGE-500SX cards to > > connect to each other, it works but with low throughputs > > (about 13 MB/s). > > P.S.: We plug it on a 32-bits PCI slot. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. -- Network Laboratories = Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de IPv4: http://www.ccrle.nec.de IPv6: = http://www.ipv6.ccrle.nec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message