From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 17 22: 9:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.uunet.ca (mail1.uunet.ca [209.167.141.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF0B37B7B5 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail1.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <214941-6229>; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:09:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:09:10 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: xl0 packet dropping, still In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000217223232.0099c370@207.227.119.2> 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 Hi, I'm using 3c905b-TX NICs in 4 servers here, all intels ranging from a beat up p133 doing DNS, to a pII and a couple celerons doing various tasks. These are interconnected via a Cisco 1548M, etc. I personally, have had nothing but good expierence with these cards, I find it strange that this many people are. Personally, I've always held 3com cards in high regard. For example, my friend's company which runs a wide array of intel servers, netfinities and whatnot, use strictly those 3com cards, I haven't heard of them having any problems either. I /have/ however, seen an Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 give a machine that I work with (FreeBSD) numerous problems upon problems for a while, it's interesting how both sides of the fence have the opposite problems. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: : Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:32:32 -0500 : From: Jeffrey J. Mountin : To: Omachonu Ogali : Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG : Subject: Re: xl0 packet dropping, still : : At 10:47 PM 2/17/00 -0500, Omachonu Ogali wrote: : >I've gotten reports of the 3Com NIC's dropping packets in all OS's using : >an Intel CPU, it's more or less a sporadic problem I say... : : The 3Com's have higher collision rates (tested over long periods) and don't : autsense most of the time, which the Intel does much better. : : Frankly I can't see anyone using a 3Com considering all the problems that : crop up on the lists, but then I've been happy with Intel NIC since the : Pro100B came out. ;) : : : Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net : Systems/Network Administrator : FreeBSD - the power to serve : : : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org : with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message