From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 10:35:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27064 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teller.asd.banctec.com (banctec.clark.net [168.143.2.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27049 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by teller.asd.banctec.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA27300; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:36:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:36:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Steele To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Slow 3c590's Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We finally have a FreeBSD router set up. The configuration is a Dell P133 with 4 3c590's. The performace of this system is pretty dismal. Does anyone have any pointers on how to speed things up? OS is snap 03/23/96 chip0 rev 2 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 piix0 rev 2 on pci0:7 vx0 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:13 aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:a0:24:56:41:19 Warning! Defective early revision adapter! vx1 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:14 aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:a0:24:72:e7:70 Warning! Defective early revision adapter! vx2 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:15 aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:a0:24:72:eb:ba Warning! Defective early revision adapter! vx3 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:16 aui/bnc/utp[*BNC*] address 00:a0:24:59:da:e1 Warning! Defective early revision adapter! The warning about "early revision adapter!" seem ominous. These cards are straight from the vendor with revisions of "b" or "d" marked on each board. Thank, Ron