Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:30:41 +0100 From: Johan Allard <allard@netman.se> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zp0 multicasting question Message-ID: <199801301337.OAA15669@mailhub.NetMan.SE> In-Reply-To: <199801291547.IAA10801@mt.sri.com> References: <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE> <199801291015.LAA07649@mailhub.NetMan.SE>
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At 08:47 1998-01-29 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> 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. The problem here is that I have a Cirrus Logic GD6832 CardBus controller and the release version doesnt support it out of the box. >> 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. :) See above. >> 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. > If you think that moving to -current will solve my problems i would not have any problems with that. Its just that i dont want to spend too much time changing release version just to see that it doesnt work there either ;-( Thanks anyway //johan
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