I'm adding Bill Paul to the list specifically.

    Hmm.  Now this is odd!  I think I may have found something!

    All of my 'rl' driver cards fail this test:

        apollo# linktest -m 0.1:0.2 -s 16 -f16 lander
        lander# linktest -m 0.1:0.2 -s 16 -f16 apollo

        They get about 1% packet loss with the test.  Always.  
        100BaseTX full or half duplex, or 10BaseT -- I still get
        failures.

        rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0
        rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:d1:89:05
        miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0

    All of my 'fxp' driver cards succeed with the above test perfectly.
    If I test an fxp machine verses an 'rl' machine, linktest shows that
    the 'rl' cards can transmit small packets just fine but they lose
    out trying to receive them!

        (test3 has an 'fxp' driver, apollo has an 'rl' driver.  Both are
        on the same switch!)

        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 79/89027
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 80/89990
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 81/90953
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 82/92879
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 83/93842
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 84/94805
        test3(216.240.41.13)->apollo.backplane.com      lost 85/96730

    Methinks there is something going on with the 'rl' driver and/or
    the RealTek cards!

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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