From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 15 12:52:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hitline.ch (mail.hitline.ch [195.129.74.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58C337B66C for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [62.2.145.15] (HELO [62.2.145.15]) by hitline.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3b9) with ESMTP id 2537287 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:51:20 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: micheal%com4u.ch@mail.com4u.ch Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:51:30 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Michael O Shea Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509 - packet dropping Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, John Reddy wrote: > >> I've got a 3Com 3C509 server NIC that every now and then will simply sto= p >... >> xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! >> xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! > > > 3COM 509 + xl is notoriously troublesome. Use an Intel card (fxp >driver) instead. > >Tom > Hmm my experience has been the opposite. Replaced an Intel Express with the 3Com and no packets dropped since. -- Micheal O Shea ----------------------------------------------------- com-o-tronic ag Micheal O Shea, Systems Engineer Gewerbepark CH-5506 M=E4genwil E-Mail micheal@com4u.ch Voice: +41 62 887 3734 =46ax: +41 62 896 1133 Internet: http://www.com4u.ch http://www.ehitline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message