From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 09:13:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA18714 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mybsd.mybsd.net (citytelprct79.citytel.net [204.244.99.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18709 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from mybsd.net (mybsd.net [192.168.0.2]) by mybsd.mybsd.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA19955; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:03:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:03:33 -0800 (PST) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net To: Steve Hovey cc: 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 Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > 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) I'm fairly happy with the ne2000's here at home. I only run 2 machines with them (though I do have a 3/60 also hooked up too) so for me performence is not really in issue. Though it might be intesting to see what kind of throughput I do get from this little network. And one can get them to work better by increasing the nbccluster in the kernel? (just want an excuse to recompile it again! :)) Anything in FBSD that I can use to measure network performence? (aside from acutually buying a network monitor) thanks! Keith