From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 17 10:29:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05088 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA05061 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 19377 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Oct 1998 17:29:25 +0000 (GMT) To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd call for testers for PNIC driver In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:16:04 -0400 (EDT)" References: <199810171616.MAA20232@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:29:25 +0200 Message-ID: <19375.908645365@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I still don't have my regular test machines back (hopefully I will on > Monday) but in the meantime I've kludged together another testbed. > Transmit performance with the PNIC seems a little slow: with other > NICs like the ThunderLAN and the 3Com 3c905/3c905B, I could get > data rates of 11.3MB/sec to 11.4MB/sec using ttcp. Unrelated to testing of the PNIC driver, but: A *big* thanks to Bill Paul for the Thunderlan driver. We're using it with 2.2.7 on a big Compaq server here, and it's been rock solid so far, handling large volumes of traffic. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message