From owner-freebsd-net Sun Sep 3 12:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palnet.com (mail.palnet.com [192.116.19.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD4D37B423 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plapla (mustafa.palnet.com [192.116.17.10]) by mail.palnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA53324; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:38:20 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <004501c015e5$3c2dc320$0a1174c0@palnet.com> From: "Mustafa N. Deeb" To: "Justin W. Pauler" , , "Emmanuel Gravel" References: <01c015dc$e13db540$0250400a@WINNT01> Subject: Re: Increasing network performance Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:26:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org what maximum traffic can you get in your house !!! ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin W. Pauler To: ; Emmanuel Gravel Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Increasing network performance > If you are looking for a general NIC that is good quality and has good > speed, maybe just try a generic NE2000 NIC. I have two NE2000's in my > machine: > > Pentium 66mhz > 20MB RAM > FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE > > They took a little bit of tweaking in the kernel, to get the interrupt/io > port right, but after I did they run very smoothly. I have one NIC connected > to all the printers in my house and one NIC connected to all the machines. I > get excellent speeds across both sides and haven't had a hiccup yet. > > These two btw are the following: > > ed0 at port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd8000 irq 3 on isa0 > ed0: address 00:40:05:14:c7:2c, type NE2000 (16 bit) > > They are both just a simple 16 bit card, but I get excellent transfer rates. > > Justin W. Pauler > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuel Gravel > To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Sunday, September 03, 2000 7:30 PM > Subject: Re: Increasing network performance > > > >Ah! I knew there were driver issues, but didn't think it would be that bad. > >Which NIC's would best suit my needs (decent performance, dual homed, > >P90 CPU, and not too expensive)? > > > >Thanks! > > > >At 01:58 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > >>On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: > >>> Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to react a little > >>> more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know just ask :) > >> > >>3c509s are a wee bit CPU hungry. The driver still has a few issues that > >>make the cards a poor choice for performance under FreeBSD. > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message