Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:14:55 +0200 From: Benoit Rossier <Benoit.Rossier@mcnet.ch> To: "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com cards/quotas Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960910081455.009a9890@mail.mcnet.ch>
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Hi,
>We almost exclusively run Linux here, and the 3Com cards work great. We
>like to stick with one vendor/model as much as possible so spares are easy
>to keep around. In the online handbook, I see the 3C509 has a note next
>to it that says (buggy). It seems to be OK, but this will be a production
>machine. What I'm wondering is whether the handbook is referring to 2.1
>or 2.1.5 or both and if the driver is truly buggy what might be
>recommended as far as another ethernet card.
We have 2 servers in production on 2.1.0 release with 3c509 and no problems.
>
>Also, there will be user accounts on this box, and I'd like to implement
>quotas. The handbook has a nice how-to, but in /etc/sysconfig I see a
>warning about turning on quotas. Is this still flakey, and could anyone
>recommend whether or not the quota system would be OK on a production
>machine?
I don't know.
>
>I've got a third question as well (sorry): What is the upper limit on the
>amount of memory FreeBSD 2.1 or 2.1.5 will recognize?
>
A copy of the faq:
Due to the manner in which FreeBSD gets the memory size from the BIOS, it
can only detect 16 bits worth of Kbytes in size (65535 Kbytes = 64MB). If
you have more than 64MB, FreeBSD will only see the first 64MB. To work around
this problem, you need to use the kernel option specified below. There is a
way to
get complete memory information from the BIOS, but we don't have room in the
bootblocks
to do it. Someday when lack of room in the bootblocks is fixed, we'll
use the extended BIOS functions to get the full memory information...but for
now we're
stuck with the kernel option.
options "MAXMEM=<n>"
Where n is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd want to use
131072
Regards,
Benoit
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