Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:11:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about "ed" driver performance on ASUS SP3G & 486DX4/100 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970810220618.6441A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199708110433.VAA08541@implode.root.com>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >So: Is there anything special I should know about wd8013 cards > >and ASUS SP3G's and/or 486/100's? Or am I just plain out of luck? > >In the latter case could anybody recommend a faster ISA ethernet > >card that's widely supported by the free OS's? > > It sounds like there is a problem that is special to the Asus SP3G. The > obvious thing to check for is the ISA bus speed being correct. As for the > wd8013, with its shared memory design, it is the fastest ISA ethernet card > that FreeBSD supports. The raw access speed to the shared memory should > be about 4MB/second - plenty fast enough to keep up with 10Mbps ethernet. I dunno... I have access to ASUS 3P3G running 2.1-stable that happening to running an anon FTP server and an SMC 8216. I can retrieve files at 930KB/s, and upload files at 898KB/s over shared ethernet with other light traffic. The ASUS SP3G is the fastest 486 motherboard I've seen. > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > Tom
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