Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:54:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971003145135.6247A-100000@hobbes.saturn-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <199710030659.XAA12834@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> > > At 100Mbps, Intel and SMC (old 9332DST) cards blow 595TX into chunks. > My small test was to create a ccd on both ends of a crossover > connection and ftp a large file over. Result: over 10MB/s with > Intel/SMC, less than 5MB/s with 3c595TX. I'm not surprised they aren't that hot at 100Mbps.... That's about what I figured. :) > Also, the 595TX exhibited very poor performance with a noisy link. > TCP performance was like 100~200KB/s on my workstation with a 10BaseT > shared net with a long cable. I changed it with an old SMC card > (10BaseT), I can get 500KB/s (or some other reasonable number, > depending on how congested the line is at that time). That is quite sick.... Later...... <Doug>
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