From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 19:11:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29711 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29596 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12589; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803310311.TAA12589@implode.root.com> To: Sean Lyndersay cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:04:56 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:11:23 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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