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Date:      Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:39:35 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        John.McLaughlin@acucobol.ie (John McLaughlin), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Poor SMC Etherpower 10/100 transfer rates 
Message-ID:  <4189.844893575@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:19:52 PDT." <199610091919.MAA07176@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> 

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In message <199610091919.MAA07176@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write
s:

>> 	Having just recently put 4 of these in 4 new (identical)
>> machines (P133's, with Intel 430VX chipset) running 2.1.5R, I'm
>> experiencing some oddities when transfering files. At the moment they
>> are being operated in 10BaseT mode, and have -link2 for ifconfig
>> specified in sysconfig.
>
>I have come accross something similiar in the very early days of the
>SMC9332DST.  It turned out to be one of the cards was bad in 10MB/s
>mode.  Note that this bad card drug the whole network down to <500kb/s
>until I found it and eliminated it.

I found out by accident that setting link1 on a de0 isn't a 
bright idea either :-)

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