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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:31:28 -0800
From:      Wes Santee <wes@bogon.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ix0 supposed to be this flakey?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970213223127.00769ea8@bogon.net>

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'Lo all.  I'm running 2.1.7 on two machines.  I know from the release notes
that it's not recommended that one uses Intel EE/16 net cards with FreeBSD.
 However, I'm using them anyway since that's what I have.  I won't complain
about the stability of the driver, but I wanted to know if one particular
side-effect I'm experiencing is due to the driver support, or if I should
look elsewhere for the cause.

Specifically, I'm getting lots and lots of timeout errors when I do NFS
transfers between machines.  The kernel sometimes reports 50-60 timeout
errors when transferring, say, 15-20MB of data.  Both cards are set to use
the full 32KB buffer (both on the card and in the kernel), and they are
going through a central 9 port hub connected by Cat5 cable.  Should I just
chalk this one up to the driver?  If not, what else might the problem be?

Cheers,

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