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From: terjem@cc.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: problem with 3c590
Date: 4 Jul 1996 02:22:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Centre, University of Tromsoe
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I've tried this both with 2.1-960627-SNAP and 2.2-960612-SNAP and 
both have the same problems.

The card is a 10Mbit 3c590 pci combo using the BNC adapter.

When sending data fast, it stops sending. 
Doing a ping when this happens results in "sendto: No buffer space available"
error messages. Can't find any error messages otherwise that can
explain what happens (/var/log/messages, dmesg, ifconfig vx0 debug).

The amount of data needed for this to happen is usually very little 
(cat'ing a large file while been logged in on the machine across the
network for instance, or usually during the for 50kb of data sent 
across a ftp transfer).

Recieving large data seems to be without problems (get on ftp for instance).

Anyone got any good ideas on what the problem is?

I'm not really very familiar with the FreeBSD source, and I need this 
thing up and running within friday. For the specific task this machine
should do I would probably prefer FreeBSD, but otherwise I'll have to try 
NetBSD (which I'm more familiar with) or Linux (in case of extreme 
desperation).

Terje Marthinussen
terjem@cc.uit.no