From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 20 11:30:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05672 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu (root@shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05603 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu (beng@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA27728 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:30:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803201930.OAA27728@shangri-la.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay, I WILL get out and help push In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:03:49 +0100." <19980320200349.19485@follo.net> From: Benjamin Greenwald X-Sender: beng@lcs.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:30:06 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:44:51AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > >>> 2) I'm open to suggestions for a cheap Plug'n'Pray PCI Ethernet > >>> card that I can pick up locally (CompUSA/Computer City). (PNP is > >>> now supported in stable, yes?) > >> > >> Anything from 3COM or SMC should do the trick. > > > > I've had moderate sucess with my 3Com 3C905. It's not a great card, > > but it works decently, at least at 10 Mbit. > > I'm going to disagree here. It is not a great _driver_, but as far as > I've been able to tell, it actually is a great card. The 590/595 are > OK cards, the 900/905 are great cards. They do full scather/gather > DMA (and IIRC checksumming), leaving them open for a zero-copy > implementation. The problem is that the driver only use them in > 'compatibility mode', which doesn't exploit _anything_ - driving it at > about the efficiency-level of an NE2000. I'm going to agree with Eivind... under Win NT the 3C905 rocks. It's only major drawback is that it doesn't have a harward multicast filter (it has a single bit --- accept multicast/don't). So if you are going to go high-end and use multicast a lot, the Intel 10/100 Pro/B/+ is a better choice. As to the driver issue, I've just begun developing a new vx driver which will use the advanced features of the Boomerang cards(3C90?), and stay compatible with Vortex (3C59?). -Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message