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From: nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for 3com Etherlink XL aka 3c900 aka boomerang?
Date: 11 Jan 1997 00:59:34 GMT
Organization: Tom Yam, Edogawa, JAPAN
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In-reply-to: ilya@info.ssu.samara.ru's message of 9 Jan 1997 09:01:40 GMT
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In article <5b2c5k$1md@ns.samara.net> 
ilya@info.ssu.samara.ru (Ilya Varlashkin) writes:
>I've tested 3C900 under FBSD 2.1.6.1 and found very interesting feature.
>I've played with two Intel Altair (P100) with one 3C900 in each
>machine. When both FBSD boxes have GATEWAY option turned off all works very
>well (upto 1Mbytes/s over FTP). But if i turn GATEWAY option on machnine A
>on, and run ping from machine B to any another machine then i get a lots
>duplicated packets (exactly there was 4 reply on each packet).

This is exactly what I experienced.

>Could anyone point me how to solve problem with 3C900? Is 2.2 works stable
>with 3Com realy?

Nope. Absolutely not.

3COM do not provide a technical reference manual of 3C900 and 3C905
adapters yet.

- nao