From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 6:14: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2535D37B423 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3SDDrk81062; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Munish Chopra" Cc: Subject: RE: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:13:53 -0700 Message-ID: <011001c0cfe5$12a77a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010428113639.B69945@wantadilla.lemis.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey >messages, such as ARP requests. Bill added a fix for it, and we have >seen no problems since. It's quite possible that the RealTek driver >has similar issues. > I wonder, though. It would seem to me that the RealTek cards are _so_ cheap that the manufacturers using those chipsets are all simply using the "suggested design schematic" and the sample device driver that comes from RealTek. For a deviation of the card to exist would imply that the card manufacturers are actually spending money on hardware and software design. That's assuming a lot for a card that usually sells for less than $9 USD I would think that there would be more chance of this sort of trouble with motherboard manufacturers that decide to embed the RealTek chip on their boards. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message