From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 9 07:33:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19680 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 07:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19645 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 07:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) Received: from sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw110 [192.23.231.54]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA25231 ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:31:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA13592; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:31:40 +0200 To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers References: Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 09 Jul 1998 16:31:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com's message of Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:56:36 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message