Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:33:08 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: James Flemer <flemer@tiger.acsu.k12.vt.us>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New vx driver (Re: vx device (3c905-100mb) ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320122958.18346A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <199803201857.NAA27642@shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu>
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I have heard that those cards are architecturally unimpressive. What type of performance do you expect? I have heard they are slower than the DECs and Intels, especially for NFS traffic. Any comments? Kevin On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Benjamin Greenwald wrote: > I might as well take this as an opportunity to announce that a new vx driver > is under development. I just received the technical docs from 3Com and should > have a good amount of time to sit down and hack this coming week. > > -Ben Greenwald > > > The man page for the 'vx' device only mentions 10Mb support (in 2.2.2). > > Has this device been updated to support 100mbit yet? And if not is anyone > > working on updating it? I have time to work on the driver, but have done > > (very) little driver programming. > > I would like to run it at 100mbit-full-duplex, but it does not appear to > > be fully supported in this configuration. > > -James Flemer > > <flemer@tiger.acsu.k12.vt.us> > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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