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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ed0: device timeout (help) Date: 30 Apr 1996 06:46:46 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4m4d0m$5k3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4l695g$sup@river.biddeford.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960419105319.12453A-100000@enteract.com> <4ldmsn$16ku@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <DqED41.Fsn@jadpc.jd.com> <4loh0p$7n8@verdi.nethelp.no> <4ls4fi$am6@news.hk.olivetti.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com (Raju M. Daryanani) writes: >A 3Com 3C509 in the same machine hasn't given me any timeouts, but the >docs say that driver is supposed to be buggy. It's perhaps less buggy these days... but the newer 3Com cards still count as rather crappy for most of us. They've over-optimized everything away so it fits into one ASIC. The cost is that they've got much less buffer space than a Real Ethernet Card (like the good ol' WD8013 which has 16 KB). The first 3C509's are said to have had only 2 KB of Rx FIFO -- in other words, one large Ethernet packet. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)