From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 17:11:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailjaya.creighton.edu (MailjayA.creighton.edu [147.134.2.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AF837B417 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.creighton.edu (bluejay.creighton.edu [147.134.2.20]) by mailjaya.creighton.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18188 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:11:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:11:51 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Wilmes To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? In-Reply-To: <20011106211811.1FFAB5C7E@clyde.goodleaf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 6 Nov 2001, J. Goodleaf wrote: > What are people's feelings about the 3Com 509 and related NICs? I recall a > while back that people were generally unhappy with the 3Com driver, etc. > Anyone enjoying 3Com cards under 4.4-stable? > -John > There is a long-standing issue with 3Com 509-based cards freezing when under a very heavy load. The problem is apparently quite hard to duplicate. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8861 I've got a 3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III that showed this behavior on one occasion. It was when I was transferring about 1 Gig of information over a 100Base-T network to the 10Base-T card. The card worked flawlessly for a few minutes, then it just stopped. It took a "ifconfig ep0 down" and "ifconfig ep0 up" to get it working again. Strange problem that never happened again, even under identical circumstances. Sincerely, Chris Wilmes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message