From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 8:18:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8F937B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 08:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MSILVER@scana.com) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id LAA10829; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:18:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.248.91) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma010453; Tue, 22 May 01 11:16:15 -0400 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:16:14 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'Peter'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: What are good NIC's for FreeBSD. Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:16:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know what your problem is, but I have seen some tuning guidlines for settings up Samba in a windows environment. Before I tuned my install I had real poor transfer rates. I couldn't burn a CD from an ISO on the samba server. Since the tuning, I now can. I also listen to MP3's off my server all the time. Rarely do I get a skip. I have a AMD K6-2 350, with a couple of realtek cards at 10Mb. My main system is down at home, so I don't have any links for you, but try searching google for samba windows tuning, etc. ...Michael... -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What are good NIC's for FreeBSD. Hello, As no-one can help me with my NIC cards, I've decided that the dc0 driver is fscked up. [My computer froze three times last night playing mp3's remotely thru smbfs, or just transfering files sometimes, not sure of NIC or what after freezing three times went full night looping the same MP3 while I slept -- [speakers were off] -- It's weird I can't figure out what is going on]. Question: Does anyone use FreeBSD as a server for Windows workstations: [Using Samba] Server== Holds files / mp3's / misc. data -->> MP3's can be played on Windows remotely from the server without skipping [this is my benchmark I use to test my network]. How exactly is it setup? Did you need to do anything special? How are your transfer rates? Anything special setup in Windows? What network cards have you found to be good, fairly cheap and work great? [Get close to 100mbit transfer rates [both ways], not 56k speeds] I'm looking for something that isn't going to cost me a lot, and something that isn't a Linksys. [again see below]. I'm also going to buy a switch, so for a home network of about 3 computer total, what is a good combo of NIC's and switch so that I will have good transfer rates both ways. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message