From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 1 15:29:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rs.ksl.co.il (rs.ksl.co.il [199.203.44.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C15837BC52 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roman@xpert.com) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by rs.ksl.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA43107; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:37:13 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: rs.ksl.co.il: roman owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:37:12 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: Coleman Kane Cc: Matt Heckaman , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: xl0 packet dropping, still In-Reply-To: <20000219193247.D6824@evil.2y.net> Message-ID: Organization: Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Hmm.. I've this card (3Com 3c905-TX) on two machines, one p2 and one k6-2 And it always worked fine. The average load that I put on them is minimal, but there are some peaks sometimes, and it works well. Reading the source points that commenting out #define XL_USEIOSPACE will make it use mmaped io which may be faster. On the other hand, the fxp0 is a fine card too. We use four of them on some firewall. On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Coleman Kane wrote: > I wonder if it is a problem with the 3c900 cards only. I have a roommate > with the 905 who doesn't haveany problems. Another one has the cheaper > homeconnect 450 that also runs fine. It seems to only be the 3c900 cards > that cause problems. I have switched my server back to some AMD-Lance > PCNet-SCSI card that is it's onboard controller. I never eally had a > problem with it, but I was under the impression that 3Com's stuff was > cream-of-the-crop, guess not. I'll probably switch to Tuilp adapters > from now on... > > --cokane > > Matt Heckaman had the audacity to say: > > 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 > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message