Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:26:49 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: "Gene Sokolov" <hook@aktrad.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advise needed: the best 10baseT card for ipfw. Message-ID: <C1256895.0049DE5D.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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Hello,
I'm a bit surprised that you find a PCI-NE2000 slow : this board would have been my best pick (cheap board, which works "honnestly")
I have also used 4 3c900 boards in a setup where I had permanent bi-directional 8-Mbps traffic on all 4 ports : the load was aroud 50% on a P-III-450 (with a mix of packet sizes)
TfH
"Gene Sokolov" <hook@aktrad.ru> on 01/03/2000 13:46:58
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL)
Subject: Advise needed: the best 10baseT card for ipfw.
We need to assemble a dedicated router (based on PII-200) with three 10baseT
adapters in it. What would be the best PCI or ISA card to minimize processor
load under 3.4R? For example it is known that 3COM 509 is relatively slow
under FreeBSD. The 1 ISA & 2 PCI NE2000 compatibles we are currently using
are excessively loading the CPU with interrupts. Is there an NC which is
particularly fast under 3.4?
If you reply, please send a copy to me as well.
Gene Sokolov.
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