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From: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: SMC Elite Combo dropping IP packets with recompiled kernel?
Date: 2 Feb 1994 22:23:19 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 1 Feb 1994 20:43:24 GMT


In article <2imetc$4p@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
   >SMC Elite Combo drops IP packets (something like 50% loss, particularly
...
   Netbsd 0.9 with a SMC; no problems of dropped packets.  Our kernel is

We added the only patch for 0.9 available and the problem went away.
Apparently some SMC versions were somehow incompatible with plain vanilla
0.9.  Thanks for all who responded.

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