From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 15 12:45:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08836 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:45:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ohio.river.org (river.org [209.24.233.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08829; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:45:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhawk@ohio.river.org) Received: (from dhawk@localhost) by ohio.river.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id MAA15528; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:43:28 -0800 (PST) From: David Hawkins Message-Id: <199801152043.MAA15528@ohio.river.org> Subject: Re: 3com 3C509B Combo card In-Reply-To: <199801150558.XAA04566@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Jan 14, 98 11:58:00 pm" To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:43:27 -0800 (PST) Cc: lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, john@mailhost.cas.unt.edu, skafte@worldgate.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Okay, I'm stumped. I've run 509B's (and plain old 509's) since they > > came out, in a lot of busy production critical servers, running FreeBSD > > and just about anything else for x86 that networked. I've found them to > > be nothing but rock solid reliable. The River's been running a 509B for two years. A couple of things: 1. turn off PlugNPlay 2. don't use a transceiver Our colocation service moved the machine recently and put in a transceiver. The network connection became unreliable. Once I took off the transceiver all was well. (Someone else figured out the problem.) We've used FreeBSD from 2.0.5 until to 2.2.5-stable. later, david -- David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org "The mind limits. If you believe you've lost your wallet, you can't buy a thing." -- M Normal