From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 07:00:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA09684 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA09678 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:00:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13047; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:59:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:59:39 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Kwoody cc: Doug White , Dave Bodenstab , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > > - are there any drawbacks to this card? > > > > They're slow because they generate a lot of interrupts over a card with > > more buffer space e.g. a 3com 3c509. > > > How slow do you consider slow? I would think on a small network that a > card running ne2000 would be adequate for most purposes. > I ran ne2000s till I saw the thru put difference I got from intels therexpress cards - the price difference was slight compared to the thruput - I mean I actually had to recompile my kernels to increase buffer space (nmbclusters) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Engineer BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------