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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 3c509 Cards Date: 27 Jul 1994 22:37:05 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site Lines: 28 Message-ID: <316ghv$4kc@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <john.72.775154941@gab.unt.edu> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <john.72.775154941@gab.unt.edu>, John Booth <john@gab.unt.edu> wrote: > My 3c509 card drops off the net intermittently--a shutdown -r now will bring > it back up. I heard there were some problems with the 3c509 driver is this > one of them or just a new one? I installed a ne2000 card in and it stays on > the net, but now I get network buffer overflows (I heard adding the gateway > option may help/fix this--any other suggestions out there?) About the > 3c509 card--it's supposed to be just about the fastest nic out there and I > got a pair of them for a very good price ($99) I would very much like to use > it reliably. Extract from the KNOWNBUGS file from the FreeBSD distribution : [...] /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c The 3c509 driver will hang under heavy network loads and take your machine off the network. (Though the machine will continue to run with no network facilities) Workaround: Try a "ifconfig ep0 down" and a "ifconfig ep0 up" to get it running again. [...] $Id: KNOWNBUGS,v 1.16 1994/06/04 10:39:55 jkh Exp $ -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386