Yes, built-in ethernet is crappy. On my 7500, with MACE, it works
great for about 5-10 minutes, then becomes sporadic and eventually
just stops working. A reboot fixes things perfectly.
BUT, this is only in Linux. Under Mac OS 9, the ethernet works
quite well and never has any problems (other than whatever problems
there are in Mac OS).
So, the built-in ethernet can work, it is just a matter of crafting
a robust driver to cope with its bugs and terrible nature. Mac OS 9
has a robust driver, Linux does not.
It seems that NetBSD has a robust driver. Anyone up for a port of mace
from NetBSD -> Linux? Think of the rewards! Now that old Mac can have
reliable 10baseT Ethernet under Linux without adding any cards!
It's just a matter of motivation, which is severely undermined by
the existence of vastly superior, cheap PCI ethernet cards that work
perfectly.
But it might be fun...
Adam
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:02:49AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:45:53PM +0200, Daniel Ericsson wrote:
> > Ok, I installed a tulip 10/100 eth i/f in the box. And now have 24h of
> > pumpd working just fine... seems dhcp lease flakieness is connected to
> > pumpd leasing for MACE and BMAC eth i/f. This is an interim solution for
> > me so I'll try out dhcp-client on the BMAC i/f and will post an update.
>
> Don't be so quick to overlook the built in ethernet.
>
> On 80% of my 7200s the ethernet cards are bad or unreliable. After testing
> one, and finding it good, the ethernet died ("lost a status word") on my
> firewall. :( After putting in eepro100 and tulip card, all is good.
>
> Admittedly, I do have a g3 with a bmac ethernet, and it is working
> perfectly.
>
> There is no reason (besides hardware/driver trouble) why the same software
> wouldn't work on one ethernet and work on another.
>
> Mike
>
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