From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 19 23:33:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C1437B718 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA62581; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:32:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3AB7077A.543522F0@herbelot.com> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:32:10 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rten=20Wikstr=F6m?= Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Routing latency References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mårten Wikström wrote: > [SNIP] > > I'm using the de driver. Alas, the NICs seems quite old. They are 21140's. > I've only got one 21143. I think there is a 3COM 3c905b in the lab too. > Would it be better to use the 21143 + 3com than two 21140s? definitely : in my packet blaster, I get an order of magnitude less packet drops with a 3c905 than with a dc NIC (which is on a multi-port NIC : the PCI-PCI bridge may be a hindrance there) TfH > > /Mårten -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message