From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 02:14:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05411 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from barney.ife.no (barney.ife.no [128.39.229.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA05398 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stein@ife.no) Received: from virginis.ife.no by barney.ife.no (5.65/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA27788; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:16 +0100 From: stein@ife.no (Stein Morten Sandbech) Received: by virginis.ife.no ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:11 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199803041013.LAA08748@virginis.ife.no> Subject: Re: FreeBSD at war with Win95 over 3Com 900XL ... In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Mar 3, 98 08:02:20 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:13:11 +0100 (CET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stein@wopr.ife.no X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 netmask 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 /* Stein M Sandbech Email: stein@ife.no ** ** Senior Systems Engineer, EDP dept Email: stein@www.ife.no ** ** Institute for Energy Technology Tel: +47 63 80 60 00 ** ** Box 40, N-2007 Kjeller, NORWAY Fax: +47 63 81 11 68 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message