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From: jhenders@vanbc.wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux network code vs. FreeBSD
Date: 30 Nov 1995 04:30:35 -0800
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
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References: <489b0t$65q@future.internexus.net> <48aeb8$mmj@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> <48ilpg$1vd@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <48oj00$je3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <48u4t8$qvr@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <49ga27$g3i@tempis.quanta.com>
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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.
--
John Henders BOFH Wimsey Information Systems.
Vancouver's original internet service provider.
http://www.wimsey.com