Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:25:00 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: danj@netcom.com (Dan Janowski), current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Various drivers... Message-ID: <199609190325.UAA01124@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:36:08 %2B0930." <199609190206.LAA07511@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>> Is there any difference between the 10BaseT and the 100BaseT >> boards and their support level or stability? > >Er, speed? Matt Thomas's 'de' driver is, when it works (most of the >time) probably the best of the bunch (DC21x4x-based cards from people >like SMC and Kingston). There's a 100bT driver for one of the Intel >cards, but AFAIR it compares slightly unfavourably. The Pro/100B actually performs better in some benchmarks for raw speed, and the overhead of the fxp driver is significantly lower (10-20%). On the other hand, old Pro/100B's have a bug in the NIC that causes them to lock up when they get garbage, and I haven't implemented (yet?) a work-around for this. In any case, both the DEC-chip based and Intel-chip based cards work well with FreeBSD and the current drivers for both have no known bugs. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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