From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 29 15:18:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A6837B422 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 154rp3-000Odo-00; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:18:42 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4TMONa01569; Wed, 30 May 2001 00:24:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:24:23 +0200 From: "'Wilko Bulte'" To: Juha Saarinen Cc: "'Normand Leclerc'" , "'Bert Driehuis'" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip_divert blues (was natd blues) Message-ID: <20010530002423.A1555@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20010529235328.A1394@freebie.demon.nl> <031001c0e889$a557eb60$0a01a8c0@den2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <031001c0e889$a557eb60$0a01a8c0@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:52:24AM +1200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:52:24AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > :: There has been a lot of debate on the Intel cards lately as > :: well. Don't > :: recall the details. > > That was the driver change, wasn't it? Requires the use of mii-bus now. Not completely. Some undocumented things were enabled in the phy chip for use on the fxp (...) driver. Which seem to break the xl driver :-( > :: I, for one, am quite happy with the 3Com > :: 3c905-TX. > :: Apart from PR: kern/27722 that is ;-) > > I experienced network dropouts with one of those... no problems > whatsoever with an Intel NIC. My usual hardware supplier say they keep a > stash of Intel NICs for UNIX customers, as it's the preferred card for > them. My laptop has an Intel nic and that works fine, I agree. I have not had bad network problems with the 3COMs. YMMV it seems Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message