From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 17 19:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27073 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw2.att.com [192.128.52.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA27064 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by cagw2.att.com; Tue Mar 17 13:40 EST 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com (dcn71.dcn.att.com [135.44.192.112]) by caig2.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id NAA19934 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:44:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:44:04 -0500 Message-ID: To: ambrisko@whistle.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PCI & multiport FastEthernet cards Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:44:00 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Doug Ambrisko[SMTP:ambrisko@whistle.com] > Thanks! > sbabkin@dcn.att.com writes: > | The second question is related. Do those 4-port FastEthernet cards > | use separate interrupt per each port ? Is it possible to make > | them using one interrupt ? > > This is a function of the BIOS, setup your BIOS to use only one > interrupt but why would you want to do that. Here we use 3 quad > ethernet cards in a few servers. I just setup the BIOS not to use the > interrupts that are being used with ISA and then let it sort things > out. I did have some trouble with early BIOS's on the ASUS XP55T2P4 > Do you have enough interrupts at all ? Because it leaves only 4 interrupts of 16 for keyboard, real-time clock, floppy, hard drive. Thank you for idea! I need only 8 ports :-) And it seems that cards like ASUS TX97 allow to do that. > Another issue I've had with the Adaptec cards 2143 based & Quad 10/100 > cards > is that I need to do a tcpdump on the interface to get the card to > work. > The scenario is > - ping to host (doesn't work) > - tcpdump -i > - the ping now starts to works. > I'm not sure about exactly that card, but in many cases switching the card to promiscuous mode required by tcpdump is made through reset. So perhaps your tcpdump just caused the second soft reset of the card. Serge Babkin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message