On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:50:22PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > > What is the issue with tulip? > > > > Seth and Mike have an issue with the tulip -- > > something about the > > > driver not reinitializing right on a soft > > reboot, but I do not know > > > the details. > > We just found (at least once) that tulips don't > probably init sometimes. Manually unloading and > reloading the drivers fixed it, but for a server, > that was bad. We just pulled it out of chezgeek, > and replaced with a solid 3com pci card. > > Might have been the card, might have been the > chipset, I dunno. We just agreed that tulips > suck. > I think it has to do with certain cards. I have used a few different revisions of those LinkSys 10/100 cards. The older ones, the Lite-On PNIC "tulip" versions, are much better then the newer ADMTek "tulip" versions. There's something seriously wrong with the new ones. They report a MAC address of 00:00:00:04:00:00 on OpenBSD. Needless to say, if you have two of these cards on the same network, they don't play nice. Could be that OpenBSD''s driver isn't all that great, but, I kind of doubt that's the root of the problem. OTOH, some people (who use OpenBSD under heavy network load) swear by real DEC chips, which use the same driver. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
