Subject: Re: 3c590 and NetBSD 1.2?
To: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/05/1996 16:10:31
In message <Pine.HPP.3.93l.961005163637.5011C-100000@unix26.andrew.cmu.edu>,
Andrew Y Ng writes:
>well, I couldn't either. I dunno if the bug is reported or not, but I know
>many ppl in here (well, everybody who uses the ep*, i think) have the same
>problem.
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.
I have not seen the PCI ep driver freeze.
That's why I've been asking about media type and hardware revisions;
to see if there's any correlation with, say, AUI.
A few more questions:
* has anyone seen this with the 100Mbit PCI version of the boards?
(I haven't, I don't think Mika has either).
* has anyone seen this with the EISA version of the board?
* Is port-i386 really the right place for bugs with PCI boards?