Subject: Re: gem (ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver) has problems on macppc -current
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org, port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 10/19/2005 09:45:50
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> >Is it that bad? My G4 spilled out that message every few minutes and
> >the network connection worked fine.
> uhm, i thought it to be noteworthy.

I don't doubt that. I'm just trying to figure that impact.

> * transfers with a host in the same LAN at 100Mbps gives a busy syslogd...

I downloaded a file via FTP at 9MB/Sec on my G4 without problems. But
it was connected to a GbE switch at point of time.

Can you perhaps try with a switch to figure out a using full-duplex
instead of half-duplex matters for the problem?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/