From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 13:38:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11935 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11925 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id VAA01642; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:54:38 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199703112054.VAA01642@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: performance (was: 100 Mb/s cards) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:54:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970311211351.OI48472@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 11, 97 09:13:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The problem with media detection is that the three link flags are > insufficient to express all combinations. That's Matt's biggest > problem with the driver, and if i'm not mistaken, this caused him to > restructure the newer version of the driver (which can be found in the > NetBSD tree, but is according to Matt too buggy to use them). perhaps the autodetection is buggy but the NetBSD driver seems pretty robust here (with a 2.1.6 machine serving a bunch of clients) Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________