Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:38:16 EST From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motherboard and Ethernet card recommendations Message-ID: <22AD11A2E@novell.persprog.com>
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Rodney Grimes recommended:
> XX. ASI ASUS-PCI/I-P55TP4N Motherboard w/256K 8nS PBurst SRAM cache $ 210.00
> XX. TMG EFA18215 EFA PCI Ethernet Card, 10BaseT & BNC, DC21040 $ 85.00
Note: lots o' useful information omitted.
This is a Triton board, isn't it? We have had a horrible time with
an ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE and an SMC PCI network card that I think uses
the DC21040 chipset. Unfortunately, for this apllication we are
running (please, don't hit me!) SCO Open Server.
A typical netstat -i shows:
> netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
net1 1500 192.2.2 meddml 11852554 120 12836553 275265 138074
lo0 8232 loopback localhost 149531 0 149531 0 0
A machine on the same subnet with the ASUS Neptune board and an EISA
network card has no such problem with Ierrs Oerrs or Collisions.
I know this doesn't have much bearing on FreeBSD but I would
appreciate any advice you could give. Would the TP4N work better?
Would the TMG card be a better choice than SMC?
If I could use FreeBSD on this machine I would (and I bet it would
solve our problems ;) ).
Thanks.
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Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com
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