From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 29 07:47:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25579 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25573 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA10006; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:47:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA10801; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:47:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:47:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199801291547.IAA10801@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johan Allard Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zp0 multicasting question In-Reply-To: <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE> References: <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" > I am sitting here and experimenting with my laptop with an 3com 3c589D > card. It works fine with the zp driver from 2.2.5-RELEASE but it doesn't > have any MULTICAST option set in ifconfig. Nope, but if you used the PCCARD version it would have support. > Therefore I installed the > PAO-971211 and everything compiled perfectly. You didn't need the PAO patches to get the PCCARD support, but oh well. :) > After som testing i got everything configured and running. The only > problem I have now is that i get really, really bad performance on my > network card. During a regular tcpdump the kernel drops aprox 50% of > all packets. Does anyone have any idea? I'm not sure what if_ep.c driver PAO uses, but if it's the driver in -current that might signify a problem. It was recently 'simplified', but it turns out the simplification has caused some performance problems that others have noted. Nate