From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 12:49:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D90C37B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:49:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AC543F93 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE7013830F; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 53A5874D4C; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id E4434567607; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:26 -0500 To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net> <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:49:38 -0000 >>>>> "Wes" == Wes Peters writes: Wes> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:03, David Gilbert wrote: >> Given the price of this card ... and the fact that >> less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that this is only an >> issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards might fit >> for you. Wes> Given the price of the card, you can almost always find a better Wes> one at roughly the same price. For instance, this one: Wes> dc0: port 0xd800-0xd87f mem Wes> 0xf3000000-0xf30003ff irq 7 at device 11.0 on pci0 Wes> was FREE last Christmas, from Office Depot. It's a Belkin Wes> branded card and normally sells for $10 (at TigerDirect.com). I was a fan of the dc drivers ... I think most sysadmins were. They were the early 4 port cards ... and then they were the cheap 4 port cards. I still see a few come along with prices in the $10 range from various vendors. But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the rl's. The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for requiring alignment (and thus copying). There are far worse hacks in the dc code ... with the comment that some dc implementations are worse than others. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================