Thank you all who took time to reply! The problem really seems to be one
of the (or maybe even both, even the LinkSys!) NICs in the FreeBSD machines.
No wonder, the RealTek card is a cheap piece of crap (around EUR 6), I
am going to replace it with something more reliable. Any recommendations?
Is t
Thank you all who took time to reply! The problem really seems to be one
of the (or maybe even both, even the LinkSys!) NICs in the FreeBSD machines.
No wonder, the RealTek card is a cheap piece of crap (around EUR 6), I
am going to replace it with something more reliable. Any recommendations?
I
THe realtek driver in freebsd is very poor. I have a Dlink DFE 530+ with
a realtek chipset and the machine would actually reboot once a week (small
mail server) and had unusual statements in the log about oversized
frames. I replaced it with a 3com 3c905c and it works great now. (even
though
Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
Hello list,
here's the situation: a small LAN with two FreeBSD machines (one
4.10-STABLE, one 5.1-RELEASE-p11), one Gentoo box, one Windows 2000
Laptop. All the machines have 100Mbit/s capable network interfaces,
configured for full duplex and auto-negotiation, and actually
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
configured for full duplex and auto-negotiation, and actually running
in 100baseTX-FD mode (5.1 uses rl0, 4.10 dc0, Gentoo and Windows are
also equipped with RealTek RTL8139 NICs).
From that statement, I'm almost certain the answer is "no", but are you
Hello list,
here's the situation: a small LAN with two FreeBSD machines (one
4.10-STABLE, one 5.1-RELEASE-p11), one Gentoo box, one Windows 2000
Laptop. All the machines have 100Mbit/s capable network interfaces,
configured for full duplex and auto-negotiation, and actually running
in 100baseTX-
