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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!geertj From: geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot) Subject: 3C59x's work! (was: Performance 3Com 3C509 vs. 3C590?) Message-ID: <DuA0x6.1Du@solair1.inter.NL.net> Organization: NLnet X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) References: <4rkc94$q6h@ns2.mainstreet.net> <4rrb8a$c12@news.ais.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:48:41 GMT Lines: 22 steve@eagle.ais.net (Stephen Schmidt) writes: >Warning: The following _may_ have changed recently, but I have no >knowledge of any such changes. >BSDI's support for the 3C590/595 is somewhat broken. Under high-load >situations (we run ftp.usr.com, amongst other traffic hogs), the drivers >for the 590/595 exhibit their immaturity, and hang periodically. This >problem has been discussed at lenght with BSDI, and the only reasonable >fix so far has been to move to a SMC card instead. We had about 10 of >the 590/595 card mix installed, and had to pull them all to be replaced >with SMC cards. A couple of weeks ago, BSDI announced patch K210-015, which addresses the problem you describe above. As far as I know, all people who reported 'hang' problems have this problem resolved by the patch. The 3C59x cards are fast but require slightly more CPU resources than I want to (this is much better for the PCI version than the ISA version). Geert Jan