From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 8:38:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from list.framfab.se (list.framfab.se [195.54.96.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CDF37B719 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Marten.Wikstrom@framfab.se) Received: from stoent001.framfab.se (mail.sto.framfab.se [172.16.200.241]) by list.framfab.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA24465; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:31:31 +0100 Received: by STOENT001 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:38:00 +0100 Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rten_Wikstr=F6m?= To: "'Dennis'" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Routing latency Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:37:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [snip] > >For sure the "de" driver might have its own problems, > >but i think a lot of packet drops also depend on the card > >not being properly set for full duplex (which can > >cause collisions and lots of drops). >=20 >=20 > You should initially test mono-directional in a controlled=20 > environment to=20 > avoid "collisions" to compare the true efficiency of the driver. Yes, that is what I have tested. One card just receiving and one card = just outputting. Thats why I thought it would be good to have two identical cards. But the question is, will there be a significant improvement by using = 3c905 + 21143 instead of 21140 + 21140? /M=E5rten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message