From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 06:00:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA00186 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA00178 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 06:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA26833; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:00:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:00:37 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Brian Tao cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: availability of 100Mb ethernet drivers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Brian Tao wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > > fxp, which is the driver for the PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro/100. We use > > them here at the job and they seem to work pretty nicely. > > I think the vx driver also supports 100 Mbps operation, although I > haven't tried it myself (I have a 3com 3C900 10/100Mbps controller, > but on a 10 Mbps LAN). I tried it. It gives appalling performance (50k/sec) on a 3c905. I can test any fixes in this area since I still have the 3com card sitting on my desk but I don't particularly want to hack on this driver. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891