From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 05:54:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19941 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 05:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA19917 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 05:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA29923; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:56:54 -0400 From: Bill Paul Message-Id: <199808141256.IAA29923@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Some errors in XL driver ? To: bazilio@monitord.vrn.ru (Vasily V. Grechishnikov) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:56:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000e01bdc741$f992efc0$0a64a8c0@baz_station.monitord.vrn.ru> from "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" at Aug 14, 98 09:11:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Vasily V. Grechishnikov had to walk into mine and say: > -----Original Message----- > From: David Greenman > To: Vasily V. Grechishnikov > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: 13 августа 1998 г. 17:01 > Subject: Re: Some errors in XL driver ? > > > >>Now my 3c905B works nicely. > >>netstat -ni after applying patch listed below: > >>Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs > >>Coll > >>xl0 1500 00.10.4b.06.a7.55 9083 4 4018 1565 > >>332 > > > > 1565 output errors? That doesn't look so nice to me... > Ueaah ! I confused ! > We haven't any serious transmit errors, because I > didn't seen any error message like xl0: watchdog timeout. > After analyzing if_xl.c I understood source of this big Oerrs > count: as output errors driver treated xl_stats.tx_deffered, I > guess number of deffered transmitted frames. After manually > ifconfig'uring xl0 interface with media/mediaopt or after > pacthing I seen performance impact on this NIC 650Kb/s with > NE2000 as peer. Also I'm not feel delays due to recieve errors, > but before telnet from 3c905 box looks like busy > ppp connection :-( . So you're saying it works, but it doesn't work? Wait. Is this really a 3c905 and not a 3c905B? If so, then please try the newest driver at www.freebsd.org/~wpaul. I did find a problem with performance on 10Mbps links. Even if you're not seeing watchdog timeouts, it may be worth a try. > One suspicuous thing: I tried to test this NIC in times of > our network inactivity but we has big number of collisions: > 250, 332, 400 ! It's not good ! The driver adds up single collisions, late collisions and multiple collisions into the one counter. I also see a lot of collisions on my 3c900 on a 10base2 network. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message