From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 11:20:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09897 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (jonny@[146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09826 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA06504; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:18:58 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199708211818.PAA06504@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: 3C905 does 100Mb? In-Reply-To: <199708191405.KAA00296@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> from Brian McGovern at "Aug 19, 97 10:05:11 am" To: bmcgover@cisco.com (Brian McGovern) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:18:58 -0300 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Brian McGovern) // I remember reading somewhere that the 3Com 3C9XX series was supported with Well. Yes and no. It works at 100Mbps speeds, but NFS performance has serious problems because of the very small buffer these NICs have. Use the DOS config to disable speed autodetection, and compile a kernel with the vx network driver. // FreeBSD (I own half a dozen), but only in 10 Mb mode? Is this true, or was I // just dreaming? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67