Re: openBSD 3.8 firewall using 3com 3C509B nic speed problem



I just tried the setup with one NE2000 card and one 3C509B card and
getting the same speed problems.

If I run netstat -I ep1 I see I'm getting some Oerrs, I was getting
Oerrs from ep2 when it was installed too. But the errors number rarely
change even if I surf the web or download some files. Right not the
Oerrs number is between 5. I don't see any collisions on the epX nics,
even when I was using 2 3C509B nics.

On the ne1 nic I don't see any Oerrs but I see some collisions, Colls
is 11 right now. But If I'm right collisions are normal and it's the
way ethernet works. But why I don't see any collisions on the epX nics?
Both nics are connected to switched network routers (in fact one is
connected to the WAN port of a router), so I shouldn't see any
collisions, Am I wrong?

I'm really beginning to suspect that the computer may be too slow to
handle the ADSL connection, but It's hard to believe. I was pretty sure
that a 150Mhz/32M was fast enough for this purpose.

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