----- Original Message ----- From: "Christophe Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: Re: 3c905B drivers
> > > Does anyone know about an instability in the 3c90x drivers from 3com on > > > freeBSD ? > > > >What problems? I've been using 3C905b for years without any problem. > > I have a problem of network instability. I use FreeBSD 4.7 as a file server > to serve windows machines with samba 3, and i use postfix as mail server. 10 > to 20 minutes after my server starts, the samba and postfix services fall > down and don't reply anymore. I am forced to restart my network by > /etc/netstart. I try to know if that problem comes from FreeBSD itself, or > if there can be a problem with the origina driver (i know there's some > under Linux...) I've heard of quite a severe a problem with rev. A 3COM 905B cards, something like this. It was corrected in rev. B or by a firmware/flash upgrade of some sort. You might want to look into this, though on the other I am not at all sure about this information... Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
