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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!mikes From: mikes@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael L. Squires) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c509 ethernet card Date: 23 Feb 1997 19:22:56 GMT Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5eq5eg$ivj@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <va4wws6yrjy.fsf@jay.dpmms.cam.ac.uk> <330CAECE.56CE@brax.se> <5epdvo$3ba$1@klemm.gtn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: copper.ucs.indiana.edu NNTP-Posting-User: mikes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35971 In article <5epdvo$3ba$1@klemm.gtn.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> wrote: >In article <330CAECE.56CE@brax.se>, > Per Brax <per@brax.se> writes: >> Gareth McCaughan wrote: >>> >>> The FreeBSD handbook says that the 3c509 ethernet card is >>> supported, but mentions that the driver is "buggy". What sort of >>> level of bugginess are we talking about here? What doesn't work, >>> under what circumstances? >> >I remember, that these things were discussed a while ago in USENET or >in the mailing lists ... Consens was, that the 3c509 cards works very >fine in current versions of FreeBSD. So to say: FreeBSD 2.1.7, 2.2-GAMMA >and -current. My 3C579 (EISA version of the 3C509) has no problems as long as I don't turn on netatalk. When I added NFS serving and samba I had no additional problems; however, adding netatalk (using 2.2-BETA) I started to get a lot of buffer overruns. sir-alan /kernel: ep0: Status: 2002 (input buffer overflow) Throughput is quite decent at all times; the network the card is on has heavy traffic at times, up to 80% of Ethernet capacity (10 Mbit shared with several PPro NT servers, P5 Novell servers, and some new Sun and SGI boxes (SPARCserver, Power Challenge, several O2's). Hardware is 486/33 EISA, 32MB, Adaptec 2744W (four Fujitsu 2654HA fast/diff drives). I don't know if a WD 8013 would have had the same problem or not. Current plan is to update to a P5/90 and then use an Intel Pro100B 10/100 card. -- Michael L. Squires, Ph.D (mikes@indiana.edu or http://sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu) Administrative Computing Manager, Chemistry Department, IU Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-0881(O) 812-333-6564(H) 546 Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington IN 47408 known in the Middle Kingdom of the SCA, Inc., as Alan Culross, KSCA, OP, CW