From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 18 03:36:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01569 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 03:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from plab.ku.dk (plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01561 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 03:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from voland@plab.ku.dk) Received: from eagle.plab.ku.dk (eagle.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.63]) by plab.ku.dk (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA28563 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199808181036.MAA28563@plab.ku.dk> From: "Vadim Belman" To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:37:02 +0100 Reply-To: "Vadim Belman" X-Mailer: PMMail 1.96a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B network collisions Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, after having heard so many positive opinions about the network card in , we decided to give it a try on our new FreeBSD 2.2.7 machine (previously we used 3COM 905 TP for all of ours FreeBSD boxes). Surprisingly, we found that Intel board produces a _huge_ number of network collisions, almost for every output packet. The strange thing is that we anyhow had a terrific transfer rate - absolutely the same as with 3COMs (~920 Kb/s on a 10 mbps connection). It is definitely a problem with the card, for we have also tried 3COM on the same machine, with predictable zero number of collisions. There is quite likely that this is not a problem with a particular Intel card, for we have also tried another one --- with the same bad results. We have 3COM switches installed in our location. Did anyone experience the same or similar problem with cards in question? We'd appreciate any help; we think the results we obtained are kind of strange. Thank you in advance, Vadim. ---- /Voland FIDO: 2:464/15@fidonet, Vadim Belman e-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk WWW: http://www.plab.ku.dk/voland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message