On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:05:33AM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> I take back some of my "works OK" comment. 
> I have a pair of Alphas with a point-point link between 82558 cards.  
> It doesn't work well with heavy load in both directions.  It doesn't 
> crash, just gets horrible throughput.  That's with 1.4.
> A similar setup on an Intel platform works fine.
> 
> Somebody half-offered to post this, but their machine wasn't available... 
> 
> This is from a Compaq NC3131 and 3132 on a NetBSD 1.4 system.  It's 
> an Alpha/Miata. 
> inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0

That was me. This machine has an onboard fxp0, and fxp1/2 on the NC3122 
card. The irq split is interesting. As I said, I was unable to find
any problems in use.

fxp0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
fxp0: interrupting at irq 15
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:18:80:93:a3
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ppb0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: Digital Equipment DECchip 21152 PCI-PCI Bridge (
rev. 0x03)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o enabled, memory enabled
fxp1 at pci1 dev 4 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
fxp1: interrupting at irq 9
fxp1: Ethernet address 00:50:8b:62:ef:7a
inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp2 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
fxp2: interrupting at irq 15
fxp2: Ethernet address 00:50:8b:62:ef:7b
inphy2 at fxp2 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

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