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Subject: Re: 3c590 problem
To: kdupuis@dcs.stu.rpi.edu (Kenneth J. Dupuis)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 21:43:46 +0100 (MET)
From: "Soren Schmidt" <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961101143817.2466A-100000@dcs.stu.rpi.edu> from "Kenneth J. Dupuis" at Nov 1, 96 02:48:55 pm
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In reply to Kenneth J. Dupuis who wrote:
> 
> The machine is connected to 10BaseT which goes through an ethernet switch
> to our 100Mbps FDDI campus backbone.  Sustained speeds of 400KB/sec to and
> from the Internet to this machine are not uncommon for long periods of
> time.
> 
> The problem is when someone does an FTP or some other form of a raw
> transfer into or out of the machine, the networking code seems to hang.
> The machine becomes "unpingable" and pings from the machine usually result
> in a "no buffer space available" message.  The machine seems to work fine
> with a standard 16-bit ISA 3c509 card.
> 
> We've also tried FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE.
> 
> Any ideas?  We need the machine to run with a 3c590, due to the amount of
> traffic that goes in and out of it.

Try the new improved driver in incoming on freefall.freebsd.org, see
if that helps...

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