From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 11 18:45:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4339B37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from aeimail.aei.ca (aeimail.aei.ca [206.123.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676E243E4A for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx) Received: from shall.anarcat.ath.cx (mb8y9k02b8rncsoy@dsl-134-52.aei.ca [66.36.134.52]) by aeimail.aei.ca (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id gBC2j4C09857 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:45:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from anarcat.ath.cx (lenny.anarcat.ath.cx [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0474B205 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:45:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DF7F832.4060303@anarcat.ath.cx> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:45:06 -0500 From: The Anarcat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: fr-ca, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard References: <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> <20021211164627.G28042@staff.msen.com> <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Thompson wrote: >>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD? >> >> >The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical about its >reliability/performance. > Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The card would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back proper functionality. I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7 should effectively be immune to this problem. But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card chipset. A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message