From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 11:22:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA17960 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamespot.com (ns1.gamespot.com [206.169.18.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA17922; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tech-a.gamespot.com (tech-a.gamespot.com [206.169.18.59]) by gamespot.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04609; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:10:58 GMT Message-Id: <199609061110.LAA04609@gamespot.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ian Kallen" To: "S(pork)" Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:17:17 +0000 Subject: Re: 3Com cards/quotas Reply-to: ian@gamespot.com CC: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The commentary about "buggy" really ought to be amended. The 3c509b's that I run have run flawlessly and the "buggy" refers to motherboards that don't reset the ISA on a warm reboot, which obviously is not everybody. Others have written into the list corroborating successful use of the 3c509b's as well. Again the only caveat is to turn off plug n play with the 3c5x9cfg utility on the 3com DOS disk. The questions about "Is it _really_ buggy?" have become sufficiently common that I'm hearby volunteering to write a FAQ entry for "How come the 3c509 might be buggy?" - If the author of the ep driver (for the 3c5x9 cards) would like additional information, I may be able to get through to an engineer at 3com. I'm quite happy with the card anyway on freeBSD and Win95. (BTW, the freeBSD boxes I have are busy ftp servers and name/mail servers for us - definitely doing fine in production network applications) regards > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:31:20 -0500 (CDT) > From: "S(pork)" > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: 3Com cards/quotas > Hi, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1 and I was really impressed with how easy > it was. I just have a few questions dealing with the online > documentation; specifically two issues... > > We almost exclusively run Linux here, and the 3Com cards work great. We > like to stick with one vendor/model as much as possible so spares are easy > to keep around. In the online handbook, I see the 3C509 has a note next > to it that says (buggy). It seems to be OK, but this will be a production > machine. What I'm wondering is whether the handbook is referring to 2.1 > or 2.1.5 or both and if the driver is truly buggy what might be > recommended as far as another ethernet card. > > Also, there will be user accounts on this box, and I'd like to implement > quotas. The handbook has a nice how-to, but in /etc/sysconfig I see a > warning about turning on quotas. Is this still flakey, and could anyone > recommend whether or not the quota system would be OK on a production > machine? > > I've got a third question as well (sorry): What is the upper limit on the > amount of memory FreeBSD 2.1 or 2.1.5 will recognize? > > Any suggestions on these issues are greatly appreciated... As I mentioned > currently 2.1 is installed (made the mistake of going thru InfoMagic > instead of Walnut Creek) but I'm open to 2.1.5 as soon as the other CD > arrives here... > > Thanks, > > Charles Sprickman > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Internet Channel SysAdmin Team Internet Channel > spork@super-g.com 212-243-5200 > spork@inch.com access@inch.com > > > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology & Web Administration http://www.gamespot.com