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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news.att.net.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!news.inetnebr.com!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dispatch.news.demon. net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!news2.euro.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.115.134.241!newsfeed.gte.net!news From: jbh@iwbc.com (John Hough) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: DE 500 XA network cards at 100mb Date: 5 Apr 1997 03:56:45 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <3346cc6e.3342600@news.gte.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust118.max3.seattle-da.wa.da.uu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.0/32.390 Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6585 I have a dialin site that I am setting up with 4 servers, I am trying to get the above cards to work reliably at 100mb. Thanks to Matthew's help I have been able to get them to all come up at 100mb using 3coms new SuperStack II dual speed hub. The problem I am having is that when they are all running at 100mb the network slows to a crawl. It doesn't matter if I set them up for full duplex or leave them at half duplex. I did not get a chance to try this with 2.1 so I am not sure if it is the new driver in 3.0 or just the cards. I even tested this with everything but the servers disconnected. Are there any people using these cards at 100mb with BSDI 3.0? Any help would be appreciated as I convinced my boss that we didn't want to use the 3com 3c595 cards because of the bug with the IRQ and it having to use polling. By the way, at 10mb in either full duplex or half duplex these cards are awesome, just want to pump up the speed to 100mb. John Hough IWBC MIS