Re: [tulip] Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

2001-03-12 Thread Godfrey Livingstone
Chip Are you going to make your driver available for others to use? Godfrey Chip Rodden wrote: > John, > > It's the driver. We have been doing smartbits testing for more > than a year and found the same results as you appear to be getting. > The driver just dies and never recovers. It attemp

Re: [tulip] Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

2001-03-12 Thread Chip Rodden
John, It's the driver. We have been doing smartbits testing for more than a year and found the same results as you appear to be getting. The driver just dies and never recovers. It attempts to do interrupt mitigation(coalescing) but that appears to be useless. The solution is to write a new dr

Linux 2.2.16/Tulip Smartbits testing.

2001-03-12 Thread John Brosnan
Hi, we've been running some throughput tests (Smartbits test box) using Donald Becker's tulip.c:v0.92 on Linux 2.2.16, on a Pentium 3 800Mhz and a 4 port Dlink DFE-570TX see log below. Basically Smartbits allows one to set the packet size, speed, protocol, etc. For example if you start at 64 byt