Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:23 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Sean Lyndersay <lynders@hcs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 Message-ID: <199803310311.TAA12589@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:04:56 EST." <Pine.OSF.3.96.980330185755.24488B-100000@hcs.harvard.edu>
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>> Check that your Ethernet card isn't using the resources of another device. >> Slow Ethernet performance can sometimes be linked to sharing IRQs with >> another device. > >All I have in there is an SB16, for which I didn't even have support >compiled in. I'm probably going to pick up another card tonight and try >it. Frankly I think this is a lot of trouble to go to, but I have no >choice at this point. An SB16 is quite enough - it doesn't matter if support is compiled in or not since the conflict is at the hardware level. I recall that SB16's like to use irq 5 - which IRQ do you have your 3c509 set to? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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