Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:08:21 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge Aldana <jorge@salk.edu> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> Cc: Will Saxon <saxonww@ufl.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002172257350.10263-100000@purkinje.salk.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002172334270.21663-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="inet xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX), then we bought a new switch and the Intel cards went bonkers and caused several problems. Needless to say when we switch to 3Com all was fine, now we burn those Intel's. Not that Intel makes a bad card or 3Com is better, they just happen to work so 3Com it is. So don't just look at the card, the network you're plugging it in to matters as well, switch, hub, bla bla bla... Jorge On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Will Saxon wrote: > > > > One possible caveat: I had problems doing an across-the-wire installation > > > of FreeBSD with the lastest Pro/100 card which has the management and the > > > boot rom stuff in it. Ended up installing using a "generic" realtec pci > > > adapter and then putting the Pro/100 in there. I can't say for sure what > > > the problem was, but the card is running like a champ now (perhaps > > > something weird with the install kernel?) > > > > > > > What was the problem? I had a problem once doing the same thing with mine, > > but it was user error - the other side was 100mbit full duplex and I had > > forgotten to enable full-duplex. REALLY slow :P. > > It had all the symptoms of a mangled IRQ- could ifconfig it, it would show > up and have the right data rate, etc., but could not ping the box, and the > install process would hang when it tried to resolve the name of the ftp > server. > > I suspect something in the box (SE440BX-2 M/B, AHA1742U2W, Trident AGP > video + this card) was conflicting with it. > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com > Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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
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