Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 00:05:33 -0400 (EDT) | From | Donald Becker <> | Subject | Re: Loosing packets with Dlink DFE-580TX and SMC 9462TX |
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 nick@snowman.net wrote: > On 3 Jun 2002, Marcus Sundberg wrote: > > running at gigabit speed. The original testing was done using > > 100Mbit hubs, so my guess would be that the 83820 chips (and/or > > driver) doesn't handle collisions too well (which I don't have a > > problem with, as afaik GE is always switched). > There are at least some gigabit ethernet hubs on the market. How badly > does it handle collisions?
Huh? Packet Engines used to sell FDRs -- "Full Duplex Repeaters", but (as the name implies) FDRs were not collision based. I don't know of any Gb Ethernet collision-based repeaters.
Any collision-based operations will take place at 10 or 100Mbps. Anyone still using a repeater obviously doesn't need performance.
... > > 0.17, but some more testing showed that the ns83820 actually works > > just fine during this test when using just crossover cables and
You might compare against my ns820.c driver. (Note: It was initially released before the ns83820.c driver was written, although the ns83820.c driver was the one put into the kernel.)
-- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993
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