From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 06:56:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA12681 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 06:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12669 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 06:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07412; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:54:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:54:57 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Kwoody cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > How slow do you consider slow? I would think on a small network that a > > > card running ne2000 would be adequate for most purposes. > > > > > > > I ran ne2000s till I saw the thru put difference I got from intels > > therexpress cards - the price difference was slight compared to the > > thruput - I mean I actually had to recompile my kernels to increase buffer > > space (nmbclusters) > > I'm fairly happy with the ne2000's here at home. I only run 2 machines > with them (though I do have a 3/60 also hooked up too) so for me > performence is not really in issue. > > Though it might be intesting to see what kind of throughput I do get from > this little network. And one can get them to work better by increasing > the nbccluster in the kernel? (just want an excuse to recompile it again! :)) No - I had to increase it due to the amount of data flow increase per second. It was a result not a cause. > > Anything in FBSD that I can use to measure network performence? (aside > from acutually buying a network monitor) > > thanks! > Keith > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Engineer BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------