From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 7:24:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cswgraphics.com (host-64-65-195-100.choiceone.net [64.65.195.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A00937B416 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from citystamp.com (wanid.cswgraphics.com [64.65.195.58]) by cswgraphics.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA23101 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:22:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C46EC92.84020DAB@citystamp.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:24:03 -0500 From: "Matthew P. Marino" Reply-To: bind9@citystamp.com Organization: City Stamp Works Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: NIC selection advice Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a my 4.4 server up and running on some new hardware. My nic is performing very poorly. The chipset on my current NIC is DEC21141 and I am using de0 as the device driver. When the system boots it takes a long time for the NIC to link up. I get any number of "Link Down" messages. I've tried a number of ways to force settings from 10 to 100 from half duplex to full, I've beat all the cable issues to death. I'm beginning to thing the card is bad. I have another NIC sold by Farallon that is a 3C595-TX in disguise. Based on the reading from the site I see the 3c595 listed but not as -TX. Is this a minor oversight or is the "xl" not appropriate? The other problem I seem to have is that in the sysinstall utilities, the proper drivers are not listed as choices(at least as far as the hardware compat. list is concearned). Can anyone recommend a good tutorial on forcing a driver selection for a known NIC. On my old hardware I got 4000K/sec in FTPon the LAN, now I get an intermittent 65K/sec. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message