Subject: Re: 3c590 and NetBSD 1.2?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@andrew.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/05/1996 19:17:52
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>
> No, *not* everyone. I have never, ever, ever seen anything like
> this, with several 3c595s running on 100-TX. I regularly hammer
> them with ttcp throughput tests. These tests send an burst of
> 256 Mbytes of data from a sender to a receiver. I think that counts
> as a large number of packets.
well, the 3c590 driver will definitely freeze. I was just *guessing* that
all ep*, turned out that I was wrong.
> That's why I've been asking about media type and hardware revisions;
> to see if there's any correlation with, say, AUI.
I have a 10BaseT connection.
> * Is port-i386 really the right place for bugs with PCI boards?
hmmm... it's the driver that has problems, not the board, imho.
/ayn
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