Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Koos de Haan
Hi, I personally have a bad experience with the de driver in general. When using it with ZNYX 4 port cards which have 4 21140A chips it has all kinds of problems, which Vinod described in an earlier message (I attached hereby). The probem occours also on NetBSD (but the same driver code is mos

Can't install 3.4-Stable in the second partition of a small IDE drive !

2000-02-18 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
Hello, I have just downloaded the latest, greatest -Stable (18-feb-00) and I can't get it to load as the second BSD version on my machine. I have a specific partitioning scheme : *** Working on device /dev/rwd0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=827 heads=3

RE: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates...

2000-02-18 Thread Alan Sickels
Title: RE: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Actually RAID 0 is disk striping with *NO* redundancy. RAID *1* is mirroring. -Original Message- From: Daniel C. Sobral [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 6:31 PM To: Brad Knowles Cc: Clifto

Re: xl0 packet dropping, still

2000-02-18 Thread Omachonu Ogali
I have a machine here with 2 3C905B-TX's, during heavy traffic I get: xl0: command never completed! xl1: command never completed! I reverted to using my Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+'s and I'm fine here. On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using 3c905b-TX NICs in 4 servers he

Can't install 3.4-Stable in the second partition of a small IDE drive ! (followup)

2000-02-18 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
Hello, (I was trying to install 3.4-Stable as a second version of FreeBSD on a small disk) I have installed "by hand" the bin distribution on these partitions : root : ad0s2a : The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 100800, size 100800 (49 Meg), flag 0

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel >Pro/100's working just fine (although we had to muck with ifconfig as >follows for 100BT ifconfig_fxp0="i

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:30:28AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Jeffrey J. Mountin once stated: > > =Frankly I can't see anyone using a 3Com considering all the problems > =that crop up on the lists, but then I've been happy with Intel NIC > =since the Pro100B came out. ;) > > Ok, so

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Matt Heckaman
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: [...] : What switch? And why set the media? "Bonkers" is a bit vague. : : The Intel autosenses speed/duplex well with Intel, 3Com, and Cisco switches : from my dealings with and does so with FBSD or Win 9x/NT. Can't say the : same about 3Com 9xx (

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Jorge Aldana
We upgraded to a newer Xylan Omni Switch/Router basically for more ports from an older Xylan (same model) with less ports. On the older Xylan we had to force the Media to 100baseTX otherwise the intel's would drop to 10base on reboots. With the new switch the Intel cards would have trouble with fu

Re: good network card (xl0 packet dropping)

2000-02-18 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:50:24PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 11:08 PM 2/17/00 -0800, Jorge Aldana wrote: > >Before you go out and buy any card make sure the network you're plugging > >it into is going to work with it. Huh, you say. Well we had all Intel > >Pro/100's working just fine (

Re: xl0 packet dropping, still

2000-02-18 Thread Seth
Just an FYI: I've got 4 3c905's in this box (one on-board, 3 in slots), all seeing fairly heavy use, and haven't ever experienced this problem. Maybe I'm just lucky. SB On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:47:30PM -0500, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > I've gotten reports of the 3Com NIC's dropping packets in a

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Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates...

2000-02-18 Thread Tom
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Tom wrote: > > > > Not really. You could just use async updates instead of softupdates. > > Or an OS that uses async updates. Write caching metadata is always faster > > than re-ordering it intelligently. > > Softupdates reduces the number of w