Re: 3c509 (was: Bizarre NIC problems (resolution))

[Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net>]

TR> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:59:38PM +0100, Lawrence W. Smith wrote:
>> > What difference did the "server" option make for you?
>> We are swerving OT but again with 3c509's the server option resulted
>> in more reliability: less dropped packets etc. as well as tolerance
>> of a wider variety of driver versions (for MS OSes)

TR> Interesting... I've been using 3c509s under Linux before and the Linux
TR> driver README mentions something along the lines of the "Server" setting
TR> being nothing but a hint to the driver and hence only relevant for Windows -
TR> is OpenBSD behaving differently in that regard? (I'm asking 'cause I'm now
TR> using those 3c509s in an OpenBSD box...).

 We almost exclusively use 3C09s in our network (with the exception of
 our web servers), and I've not found any difference between setting
 server and setting something else. I usually select server anyway,
 just in case it does do something at the low level.

 I'm more curious as to the purpose of setting the modem speed (not
 that I've made any attempt to find out. I'm not that curious)... ;)
 (heading way OT now)


Best Regards,

 Lee Smallbone

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