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From: dmiller@panix.com (David M. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
Date: 15 Oct 1993 14:44:47 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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>   Well, NetBSD 0.8  has the same broken and inefficient ethernet drivers as
>386BSD 0.1 did. NetBSD, FreeBSD, and even Bill's up-and-coming 386BSD 0.2
>doesn't use them anymore - they all use the 'ed' ether driver that I wrote.

One question, a little off subject.

FreeBSD has slightly different defaults for the NE2000 card than
386BSD 0.1: it now expects the card at ioaddr: 0x280, irq: 5, instead
of the 386BSD default of ioaddr: 0x300, irq 9(2).

My NE2000 is a true Novell card (not a clone) and only supports four
ioaddr settings, the lowest of which is 0x300 (I think the others are
0x320, 0x340, and 0x360, but who cares).

Can the ed0 device's defaults be changed without recompiling the
kernel?  I had sort of hoped to be able to ftp the sources over,
rather than copying 40+ MSDOS floppies...

...and now, back to your regularly scheduled thread...
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