Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:11 +0100 (CET) From: stein@ife.no (Stein Morten Sandbech) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stein@wopr.ife.no Subject: Re: FreeBSD at war with Win95 over 3Com 900XL ... Message-ID: <199803041013.LAA08748@virginis.ife.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303195713.21429J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Mar 3, 98 08:02:20 pm"
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Just to follow up with som new info.
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Doug White:
: --> Snip
> Does a cold boot do anything?
A cold boot (to/with Win95) does not (re)set the media type ...
I tried the newest (3.01) driver from 3Com's Web site, but no improvements ...
> > Consequently I proceeded to set FreeBSD to select 10base2 with the
> > "link1" option in "/etc/rc.conf" as follows:
> > ifconfig_vx0="inet <ip-address> netmask <mask> LINK1"
> > and it works like a dream.
>
> That is what the link flags do -- they set the media type. `Auto select'
> is unpredicatble, especially with BNC media since there is no good way to
> `detect' BNC connections like there is for UTP.
>
> I guess the question is why Windoze is having trouble -- is it having to
> continually redetect the media type, resource conflict, ???
A review of the hardware indicates that there are no conflicts. Neither
Win95 nor FreeBSD indicate conflicts.
>
> Use a better card? :-/ The 3c900 has a *very* small amount of buffer
> space, enough that NFS packets get chopped up, severely hurting
> performance. I'm trying to rid ResNet of these cards so we can use the
> Dayna Digital-based cards, which are cheaper and perform ten times better.
I agree.
Hovewer, I've set up an indentical PII with FreeBSD and NT 4.0 a month ago,
and it works OK. I have no indication on the FreeBSD NFS performance on that
machine though ...
> Note this warning:
>
> > hilbert /kernel: vx0 <3COM 3C900 Etherlink XL PCI> rev 0 int a irq 10 on
> > pci0:13
> > hilbert /kernel: utp/aui/bnc[*aui*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS
> > util! address 00:60:08:e7:ef:af
OK, but farther down in "/etc/log/messages" it say:
hilbert /kernel: vx0: selected bnc. (link1)
> Doug White | University of Oregon
> Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Thank you for info, and still after approximately 4 years with FreeBSD it
never cease to impress me the quality and promptness of the FreeBSD support
team!
Stein Morten
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