Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:11:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980130190927.280I-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980130164656.2815F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Alex wrote: > > > > 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). > > > > Do they need a bus master slot, or can I save those for my VGA and SCSI > > cards? And how much are the above mentioned cards (I already have a 3c509 > > and NE2k)? > > I think they are busmastering, yes, but modern hardware doesn't seem to > have issues with it. I dont' think my old P90 (which you had to manually > assign IRQs to the PCI slots) had any problems either. Hrm. I remember a caution about certian kinds of cards in my motherboard's manual, since I can have at most two busmastering pci devices (one is the onboard SCSI in "Slot 4"). Oh well, I think I'll stick with my current hardware. - alex
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