From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 22:33:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA10962 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10956 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogon.net (gw.bogon.net [204.137.132.49]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id WAA10954 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rimmer.bogon.net (rimmer.bogon.net [204.137.132.59]) by bogon.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id WAA13339 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:31:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970213223127.00769ea8@bogon.net> X-Sender: wes@bogon.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:31:28 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Wes Santee Subject: ix0 supposed to be this flakey? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk '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, -- ( Wes Santee PGP: e-mail w/Subject: "Send PGP Key" ) ( mailto:wes@bogon.net callto:uls.four11.com/wes@bogon.net )