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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Costa Morris <costa@cortx.com>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Costa Morris wrote:

> I am running 2.2.2R and i have a 16bit kingston ehternet card which probes
> as
> NE2000 16 bit.  I host several sites and have a fair amount of traffic.
> 
> i was wondering if i would notice a performance difference if i upgraded to
> a
> 32bit PCI card with all the trimmings. or should i not even bother.  please
> let me know.

Yes, absolutely!  The ISA cards drag more on your CPU; the PCI cards will
make your machine run more efficiently when doing network traffic.  I ran
a NE2000 in my Pentium for ages and lost ping -f wars with PCI ethernet
cards, until I upgraded. >>:->

Kingston and Dayna are very good cards that are supported by FreeBSD and
are inexpensive; the crown jewel is the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B but
that is more expensive.

PCI Ethernet cards are worth the investment (assuming you have PCI slots
available).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major