Subject: Re: second ethernet port
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/15/2000 12:35:42
> I also have a qec/be running, although I must say that the 100BT
> performance on that card is generally lackluster for me,
> and the media selection seems untrustworthy (it claims full duplex, but
> two different switches and a link to another 100BT FDX card all claim it
> was still running in half). The qec/be, despite it's peculiarities, is
> stable, though. I'm waiting for the hme support ;-)
The be(BigMac Ethernet) is half duplex. There is support for the hme
cards...I'm running several of them right now. The only hitch is that the
drivers don't use full DMA, so you have to twiddle with the buffer
settings & sizes otherwise you overrun them.