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Date:      09 Jul 1998 16:31:39 +0200
From:      smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
To:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC drivers
Message-ID:  <rx47m1nyu2c.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
In-Reply-To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com's message of Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:56:36 -0400
References:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B5A@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes:
> Although I don't know about the current state of the driver. There
> was a period (early '95) when packet loss led to the hang of the
> card and that's the reason why it was marked as "buggy" in LINT at
> that time. This was fixed but this comment just was not cleaned up.

Believe me, it still sucks. Search the archives (both the mailing list
archives and the PR database) for "no buffer space", and/or "ep0".
Basically, the driver is fine for telnet and mail, but wedges under
sustained load. I can get it to hang without ever going above 20 kBps
(160 kbps). Gimme an Intel EtherExpress.

DES (not very proud owner of three 3c509)
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com

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