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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Performance
Date: 25 Jun 1997 10:05:42 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5opk40$aho@nusakan.cedar.buffalo.edu>,
Ajay Shekhawat <ajay-bsd@cedar.Buffalo.EDU> writes:
> Richard J. Finn <rfinn@Houston-InterWeb.COM> wrote:
> » You know... I tried to install Linux on one of my machines to try it
> » out. It couldn't find my primary network device, while FreeBSD had no
> » problem at all. Seems to me it's a little hard to have a better TCP/IP
> » stack if you can't even get the network interface up. Shrug.
> »
> » I have used it and I haven't seem anything that really impressed me.
> »
>
> Not to start any flamewars here, but we've had the opposite experience
> here. But before you turn the flamethrower on, please read on.... :-)
I've had no problems with either :)
> Here's our setup:
> ASUS P/ PT55TP4N MB
> Pentium 166
> 64MB EDO RAM
> Mitsumi IDE CDROM drive
> Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card with a Conner 4GB SCSI drive
> 2 SMC 9332BDT Etherpower 10/100 cards with the DEC 21140-AC chipset
>
> Linux (RedHat 4.1) installed fine on this system from the CDROM. Just
> needed to add the latest tulip driver (0.76) and it was up and running,
> routing between our two subnets.
>
> With FreeBSD 2.2.1, we've been having all sorts of problems. For one,
> the CDROM drive doesn't get detected. We've tried all versions of boot
> floppies (upto 3.0-970618-SNAP), including those in the "newer"
> subdirectory (if they exist). No luck with the CDROM.
Perhaps it's slave on a controller with no master ?
> Next, the ethernet cards go down once FreeBSD probes them; the LED on the
> switch (they are connected to a Cat5000 100bT switch) and the card goes off.
> So, we pulled the cards and installed a 3C509. The kernel recognized the
> card, and we were on our way. We put the CDROM on one of our Solaris
> boxes, and tried to install it via FTP from that box. But the FTP
> was at about 1kB/s! Needless to say, it installed all night and was
> done sometime the next morning.
>
> Then, we pulled out the 3C509 and installed the SMC cards again, this time
> with the latest "de" drivers from 3AM Software. The cards come up fine,
> but a strange thing happens: after some activity, the card just stops
> communicating. Trying to ping outside hosts gives, after some attempts,
> the following error:
>
> PING 128.205.XXX.XXX (128.205.XXX.XXX): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: wrote 128.205.XXX.XXX 64 chars, ret=-1
> ping: sendto: No buffer space available
> ping: wrote 128.205.XXX.XXX 64 chars, ret=-1
>
> The thing is, just bouncing the interface ("ifconfig de0 down" followed
> immediately with a "ifconfig de0 up") fixes the problem for a few more
> minutes.
>
> Anyone willing to figure out what the problem is?
Have you mucked around with the -link switches to ifconfig ?
> Thanks,
>
> Ajay
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !