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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Performance
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:56:33 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Ajay Shekhawat <ajay-bsd@cedar.Buffalo.EDU>
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Ajay Shekhawat wrote:
> Not to start any flamewars here, but we've had the opposite experience
> here. But before you turn the flamethrower on, please read on.... :-)
> 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

It does, unfortunately, happen occasionally that someone will pick just
that right combination of hardware that hits a weak spot.  The IDE cdrom
has always been one of our more "iffy" propositions (and I wish I could
get more folks to work on that driver but everyone seems to be running
SCSI everything) and the SMC ethernet support has been a rock, right up
until they introduced those stupid 9332 cards which were incompatible
with their other products.

The 3am software driver you're running is also not well integrated or
tested yet (which is why it's not yet in the tree) so I can't say I'm
too surprised at this.  I've shipped some of these cards to Peter Wemm,
our current man-on-point where this is concerned, and we should
hopefully have this resolved fairly soon.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.