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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!news.he.net!nr1.scn.co.jp!news02.so-net.or.jp!news01.so-net.or.jp!sinfony-news01!news-jp-0.abone.net!np0.iij.ad.jp!nf0.iij.ad.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!iijnet!tom!usenet 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <NAO.97Jan11095934@miffy.tom-yam.or.jp> References: <5b2c5k$1md@ns.samara.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: miffy.tom-yam.or.jp In-reply-to: ilya@info.ssu.samara.ru's message of 9 Jan 1997 09:01:40 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33972 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