From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 19 1:43:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19D337BBCD for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 01:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id DAA08389; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 03:43:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-82.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.82) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma008387; Sat Feb 19 03:42:44 2000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000219034203.008f75a0@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 03:42:03 -0600 To: Jorge Aldana From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.20000218125024.009efd00@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:33 AM 2/18/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: >We upgraded to a newer Xylan Omni Switch/Router basically for more ports >from an older Xylan (same model) with less ports. On the older Xylan we >had to force the Media to 100baseTX otherwise the intel's would drop to >10base on reboots. With the new switch the Intel cards would have trouble >with full duplex, drop to half or not be able to negotiate with the Xylan. >Under the worst circumstances the Cards would emit runt packets causing >the whole network to go down (a switch thing) thats why we got rid of >them. Note: everything was fine with the old Xylan and Intel cards, the >new Xylan (only newer technology from what we know) did work with Intels >but not the way we needed them full duplex 100BT. We noticed that the >3Coms that were built into some of the machines which were using the >Intel pci card did everything without a hitch so we pulled the cards and >went with the built in 3Com's. Everything is fine now and like I said, I >don't care who makes it just that it works. I'm sure we could of tweeked >something somewhere (switch or ifconfig) to get things to work right but >that would of been extra time, something I didn't have or want to use on >that problem. This smells of a switch problem more than a card problem, but like you say "if it works..." 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