From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 15:57:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF48714C82 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA25604; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:57:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906012257.SAA25604@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:53:17 -0400 To: Alexander Maret , "'Nick Hibma'" From: Dennis Subject: RE: xl driver for 3Com Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" In-Reply-To: <91DA20EC3C3DD211833400A0245A4EA9BA0E5B@erlangen01.axis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> The discussion started with a remark about the fact that 3Com >> cards have >> problems under load, without a backing of that statement. That is the >> thing that made people trip over. It is a statement that is not the >> least helpful for anyone on the hackers mailing list and will not >> trigger help from anyone, apart from responses from people being >> frustrated about not being able to help (sounds silly but it is >> true, their puppy is being attacked without them being able to >> respond). If it "had no backing" then how could it be a "fact"? replacing the cards with intels and having the problem go away is backing. It may not be *useful*, but it is backing. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message