From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 9 13:40:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA01400 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA01370; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA04191; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:39:35 +0200 (MET DST) To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: John.McLaughlin@acucobol.ie (John McLaughlin), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor SMC Etherpower 10/100 transfer rates In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:19:52 PDT." <199610091919.MAA07176@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:39:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4189.844893575@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.