From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 1 14:27:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22224 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA22213 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wjANk-0000a3-00; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:22:40 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Gary D. Margiotta" cc: Julian Elischer , Gennadi Makhmetov , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lnc device In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > if you can get a NON PCI MB. just use 16 bit SMA/WD cards. > > (they are also cheaper). > > do NOT use NE2000 cards. > > Just out of curiosity, do you mean generic NE2000 cards, and if so, may I > ask as to why you say not to get them. We have a few NE2000 generic cards > in some machines here, and have absolutely no problems with them, plus > their speeds aren't bad. They aren't near as good as the Intel Pro100B > PCI cards we also use, but they are still decently fast nontheless... > > -Gary Margiotta > TBE Internet Services > http://www.tbe.net NE-2000 cards use programmed I/O. Programmed I/O to NE-200 cards is CPU intensive. 486 systems will have problems saturating ethernet with a NE-2000 card, but will not have problems with a shared memory card. If you are using NE-2000 in a Pentium or Pentium Pro system, you are just wasting expensive CPU power. What does a Pentium Pro 200 with 512k of onchip cache cost? About a thousand bucks, I guess. What does a Intel Pro100B cost? Less than a hundred bucks. Tom