On 7/11/05, Ilya A. Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SG> Since your network is only 100Mpbs my recommendation is a dlink ehternet
> card.
> SG> Now I may not be fully correct but from my experience it performs well :-)
>
> AFAIK D-Link NICs is worst choice. Two reasons:
>
> 1. D-link NICs always was cheap low-end solution.
>
> 2. Couple months ago D-link switched it's NICs from RTL8139 (pretty
> stable) to VIA Rhino III chip (which has problems under OpenBSD)
> without any changes in model number.
> VIA chips has permanent problems w/ OpenBSD - it hangs
> and stops responding network connected to it (tcpdump(8) or reboot
> can reset NIC until next fault). Maybe, due driver imperfection.
> So I recommend you to avoid VIA NICs.
>
Thanks a lot for the info llya :-)
I don't know techincally much about NICs thats why I said
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Since your network is only 100Mpbs my recommendation is a dlink ehternet card.
Now I may not be fully correct but from my experience it performs well :-)
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the reason for that is
I have been using
1) RTL8139D ( Digi-5700TX ) - rl(4)
and
2) Davicom DM9102AF - dc(4)
on the Internal Interface of my firewall and was buggen very much with
the network connections hanging and firewall displaying
watchdog time out
error for both these NICs.
I was asked to use dlink card for better perfomance and actually i
didn't know they changed their chips till you informed me. Since dlink
duplicates are rampant in our area I actually got this from someone
out of the country. and it perfoms very well actually for my need. It
never gave me a watchdog time out error and its a VIA thing
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vr0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "VIA VT6105 RhineIII" rev 0x86: irq 9
address 00:11
:95:c9:b3:60
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
vr1 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "VIA VT6105 RhineIII" rev 0x86: irq 5
address 00:11
:95:d2:d4:a7
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
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So my advice was just based on this experience. Sorry for that Kirill
and rest of the list :-(
kind regards
Siju
If any body is interested in the full dmesg then
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OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.40 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID
real mem = 534618112 (522088K)
avail mem = 481042432 (469768K)
using 4278 buffers containing 26832896 bytes (26204K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 11/15/02, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf4630/208 (11 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xb200!
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82845G/GL" rev 0x03
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82845G/GL Video" rev 0x03:
aperture at 0xf0000000, size 0x8000000
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x02: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x02: irq 5
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x02: irq 9
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x02: irq 10
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: single transaction translator
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0x82
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
"Intel V.92 Modem" rev 0x00 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
rl0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "D-Link Systems 530TX+" rev 0x10: irq 11
address 00:a0:b0:03:8a:ec
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy
vr0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "VIA VT6105 RhineIII" rev 0x86: irq 9
address 00:11:95:c9:b3:60
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034, rev. 5
vr1 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "VIA VT6105 RhineIII" rev 0x86: irq 5
address 00:11:95:d2:d4:a7
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy1: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034, rev. 5
rl1 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 3 address
00:08:a1:78:03:6d
rlphy1 at rl1 phy 0: RTL internal phy
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801DB LPC" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801DB IDE" rev 0x02: DMA,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 6E040L0>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 39205MB, 80293248 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
"Intel 82801DB SMBus" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801DB AC97" rev 0x02: irq 3, ICH4 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445374 (Analog Devices AD1981B)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
biomask ff65 netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
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