Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:14:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com> To: md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Mark Dawson) Cc: thought@teleport.com, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pci bus ethernet cards Message-ID: <199508250814.BAA26772@easy4.easynet.com> In-Reply-To: <8kDMDuL0VyTn1VgClg@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> from "Mark Dawson" at Aug 25, 95 09:04:10 am
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> > > There is (at least) one listed - the DEC DC21040/DC21140 based > > cards. Depending on what you want to connect to (10b2, 10bT, 100bTX), > > there are cards available, although I couldn't quote part numbers apart > > from the SMC 9332 which is a 10bT/100bTX card. > > I have seen very high (80%) packet loss in a Gateway 2000 P5-75 using > the SMC 9332 card at 100bTx. SMC tell me it is likely that the > Gateway's PCI bus is not up to specification. Gateway have yet to > comment on this. > > Has anyone else seen this behaviour with this card - does it arise with > all cards based on the 21140 chip? How does one tell if they are losing packets? I've been transmitting MPEG System Streams (live video) via SMC 9332 in 100BaseTx mode and haven't noticed any problems. Brian Litzinger brian@easynet.com
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