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Date:      01 Mar 1996 01:28:47 -0500
From:      Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com>
To:        lists-freebsd-hackers@matlock.mindspring.com
Subject:   Re: 100-baseT hub recommendation?
Message-ID:  <knu409fhsw.fsf@xena.mindspring.com>
References:  <199602292159.NAA10325@Root.COM>

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On Thu, 29 Feb 1996 20:53:49 EST, David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> said:

>    The only known problem with the Intel cards is a bug in the NIC that causes
> it to freeze up if you have garbage on your physical net - like plugging a
> 10BaseT ethernet card into your 100BaseTX hub. 

...or when you reboot your ethernet switch.  This happened to us twice
during our evaluation of a BayNet 100bT switch.  I think we'll stick
to the DEC-based cards.

By the way, the fxp driver isn't terribly well documented, and I don't
see an obvious way to force 100Mbps vs 10, or full duplex vs half
except possibly by recompilation.  That's another advantage of the
DEC-based boards (drivers, at least).

thanks,
  -- Robert



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