From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 04:07:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02498 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 04:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA02486 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 04:07:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk) Received: from albatross.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.202.16] by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.81 #4) id 0yee3H-0003JC-00; Wed, 27 May 1998 12:07:23 +0100 Received: (from ip@localhost) by albatross.mcc.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.4) id MAA04442 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 May 1998 12:07:23 +0100 (BST) From: Ian Pallfreeman Message-Id: <199805271107.MAA04442@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: BICC ISA NICs -- verbose logging To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 12:07:23 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: ip@mcc.ac.uk 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 Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a small pile of old BICC 16-bit ISA ethernet cards. They work with all the versions of FreeBSD which I've used, and indeed sometimes give better performance than the 3C509s which are "standard" around here. My only gripe with them is that they're forever logging errors: May 24 13:00:17 hub /kernel: lnc0: Receive overflow error May 24 13:00:22 hub last message repeated 17 times May 27 09:04:21 magoo /kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer May 27 09:04:24 magoo last message repeated 2 times All of the cards I've tried whine in a similar way. I've tried them on a range of machines from a 486/33 up to a P166, none of which are doing a great deal in network terms. My question is, really: is this to be expected? Ian. -- Network Unit, SNOT Team, Manchester Computing, The University, Manchester, UK. mail: ip@mcc.ac.uk | phone: +44-161-275-6006 | fax: +44-161-275-6040 Where once we had dragons to slay, now we just sacrifice chickens. 35,000 users, 622Mb/s networking, and a 486. :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message