From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 8:53:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEF237B410 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.phillipoux.net (bob.net1.nerim.net [62.212.96.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3676743EBE for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonathan@phillipoux.net) Received: from bluesheeps (bluesheeps.phillipoux.net [192.168.1.2]) by mail.phillipoux.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gBAGtE506834; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jonathan@phillipoux.net) Message-ID: <006201c2a06c$a4ecf520$0201a8c0@bluesheeps> From: "Jonathan Clarke" To: "Christophe Simon" Cc: References: Subject: Re: 3c905B drivers Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:53:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christophe Simon" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: Re: 3c905B drivers > > > Does anyone know about an instability in the 3c90x drivers from 3com on > > > freeBSD ? > > > >What problems? I've been using 3C905b for years without any problem. > > I have a problem of network instability. I use FreeBSD 4.7 as a file server > to serve windows machines with samba 3, and i use postfix as mail server. 10 > to 20 minutes after my server starts, the samba and postfix services fall > down and don't reply anymore. I am forced to restart my network by > /etc/netstart. I try to know if that problem comes from FreeBSD itself, or > if there can be a problem with the origina driver (i know there's some > under Linux...) I've heard of quite a severe a problem with rev. A 3COM 905B cards, something like this. It was corrected in rev. B or by a firmware/flash upgrade of some sort. You might want to look into this, though on the other I am not at all sure about this information... Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message