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From: "Sean Lyndersay" <lynders@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: <dg@root.com>
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Subject: RE: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:37:13 -0500
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Okay, I've removed the SB16 completely, and rebuilt the kernel with no sound
support. I've tried the 3com card on both IRQ 7 (i haven't got a printer)
and IRQ 5, to no avail. I'm still getting really slow performance.

I'm going to try another network card, and I'll report back.

Sean
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: root@implode.root.com [mailto:root@implode.root.com]On Behalf Of
> David Greenman
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 1998 10:11 PM
> To: Sean Lyndersay
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509
>
>
> >> 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
>


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