Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 22:39:35 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: John.McLaughlin@acucobol.ie (John McLaughlin), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor SMC Etherpower 10/100 transfer rates Message-ID: <4189.844893575@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:19:52 PDT." <199610091919.MAA07176@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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In message <199610091919.MAA07176@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write s: >> Having just recently put 4 of these in 4 new (identical) >> machines (P133's, with Intel 430VX chipset) running 2.1.5R, I'm >> experiencing some oddities when transfering files. At the moment they >> are being operated in 10BaseT mode, and have -link2 for ifconfig >> specified in sysconfig. > >I have come accross something similiar in the very early days of the >SMC9332DST. It turned out to be one of the cards was bad in 10MB/s >mode. Note that this bad card drug the whole network down to <500kb/s >until I found it and eliminated it. I found out by accident that setting link1 on a de0 isn't a bright idea either :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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