ethernet and switches, was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:22:23AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> Hmm, must have missed this question.  I've got different subnets, and 
> was trying to use a DEC PCI FDDI card in a machine to route between 
> them, but discovered (unsuprisingly) that the Linux driver for that is 
> horribly broken.  I might get an SK card to try that with, as it should 
> work better.

I have gotten a sun running Solaris 8 to act as a router between an HME
and a SunFDDI card.  However, so far I'm getting slightly better than
10mbit speeds between the two subnets.

Actually, come to think of it, I may need to double check that my test
machines are actually using the HME rather than the onboard ethernet of
the router.  After months of being defeated by this, I'll be so
embarassed if that's the problem.  Otherwise, it is possibly a
consequence of using the built in Solaris routing for the task.