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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!hudson.lm.com!peterb From: peterb@psc.edu (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD Date: 1 Dec 1995 13:41:30 GMT Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Lines: 21 Message-ID: <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> References: <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net> <48u4t8$qvr@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <49ga27$g3i@tempis.quanta.com> <49k85b$q51@vanbc.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tcptest.psc.edu In article <49k85b$q51@vanbc.wimsey.com>, John Henders <jhenders@vanbc.wimsey.com> wrote: >rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker) writes: >>What net interface are you using. If the answer is the 3com 3c509/3c579 >>then there is you're broken frames. The buffers on these cards are too >>small for the performance of the network layer. > >That's an odd statement. We use a 3c509 on a BSDI box which is running a >web server that get 500 hits a minute during peak hours, including one >customer's virtual site that serves up samples of his cdrom gif >collection, and have never seen this behaviour. Agreed. The 3c509 is one of the best ISA ethernet cards available, and shines under BSDI. I have one in my FreeBSD box, but haven't hooked it up to a LAN yet :-}. What he probably meant to say was "FreeBSD's 3c509 driver is buggy." (according to the release notes).