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Re: Networking Patches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sat Jun 8 11:18:33 1996
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 17:06:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <mike@uplift.sparta.lu.se>
To: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
cc: Giuseppe Ciaccio <net@hobbes.disi.unige.it>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi
In-Reply-To: <m0uS1il-0009fFC@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I submitted a patch to the former bug a long time ago, and I e-mailed
> > Donald Becker for the latter bug last month, but "the song remains the same"...
>
> The current driver seems to handle the 3c590 fairly well. I can't comment on
> the performance loops. Are you running the kernel driver or the one on the
> cesdis web site which is newer ?
For what it's worth, for me the 0.13 driver included in the kernel works
better than the 0.25 on that page.
The 0.25 just stopped receiving information from the net during high
loads, and you had to "ifconfig eth0 down" and start up eth0 again and add
routes.
This happened repeatedly for me while ftp:ing files between my windows
machine and my linux machine (file going linux->windows).
This was with 1.99.11 and .12. I went back to 3c59x v0.13 driver that was
originally in the kernel, and havent experienced any problems since, which
includes transferring 100ds of megabytes at 500-650kb/sec from
linux->windows.
