From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 17:46:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17101 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [165.90.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA17094 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calweb.calweb.com (calweb.calweb.com [165.90.138.3]) by mail.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04635; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web1.calweb.com (rdugaue@web1.calweb.com [165.90.138.10]) by calweb.calweb.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA28094; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 00:43:01 GMT Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Du Gaue To: gtc@aloft.att.com cc: us@pop.de, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 3COM 3c509 In-Reply-To: <9607030014.AA03912@stargazer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I use a 3Com 3C579 on 2.1.0-RELEASE, which uses the same driver as the > 3C509. I haven't noticed any problems with it. Note, however, that > there is very little traffic on my LAN, so I don't know how good or bad > it works under a lot of stress. Any other users of this card care to > comment? The driver(s) and the 3Com-3c509 do not perform well under stress at all. Trust me, I just put a 12 gig file server up and forgot to pull out the 3c509 card we use as a spare/test card. We use all PCI SMC cards and the DE0 interface for all our heavy duty machines and have never had a problem directly related to that interface/card. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com President, CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 --------------------------------------------------------------------------