From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 24 05:34:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19061 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (Radford.i-Plus.net [208.24.67.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19055 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 05:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rewt@i-Plus.net) Received: from Radford.i-Plus.net (rewt@Radford.i-Plus.net [208.24.67.15]) by Radford.i-Plus.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA10822; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:33:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:33:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Troy Settle To: Vadim Belman cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B network collisions In-Reply-To: <199808181036.MAA28563@plab.ku.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Vadim Belman wrote: > 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 Check your configuration on the card and switch. Surely there's something screwed up there. This card has performed *very* well for me since the day I put it in. Here's what netstat shows me after 40 days uptime (reformatted): Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll fxp0 1500 00.a0.c9.c7.3a.09 57849557 0 41586785 1 0 -- Troy Settle Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message