On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Miles Sabin wrote:
> Has anyone got any recommendations for a RiscBSD friendly 10base2 or
> 10baseT NIC? This is for a very tiny LAN: one RPC running RiscBSD most of
> the time, and one NT 4.0 Server.

I'm using an ANT EtherB 10BaseT card. It works OK, it drops a few packets
but not very many (no more than about two or three a day....) and this is
on a network that seems to be full of broadcasts for some reason...
However, transfer rates aren't too good, I can only get up to about
350KB/sec to hosts on the same network. I believe the driver doesn't use
DMA.

On top of that the network will occasionally just stop working until I do
'ifconfig eb0 down; ifconfig eb0 up'. In particular this seems to happen
after a few minutes of running tcpdump, which puts the card in promiscuous
mode... I don't know if this problem is specific to the eb driver or not.

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