From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 09:26:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A87106566C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:26:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vicknesan@bigfoot.com) Received: from mail1.ilik.net (mail1.ilik.net [192.71.20.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F758FC0C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ark (138.206.216.81.static.nvik.siw.siwnet.net [81.216.206.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail1.ilik.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198A62C3917; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:26:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Vicknesan AYADURAI X-X-Sender: vick@apu.ark.homeunix.org To: Paul G Webster In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20110608110642.P53577@apu.ark.homeunix.org> References: <20110608094131.B53577@apu.ark.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Looking for a supported PCMCIA dual NIC card X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:26:56 -0000 I haven't experienced any perceivable latency issues with my USB-ethernet adapter, but then again, my requirements were fairly general. Nonetheless, intrigued by your comment, I did a quick ping test between this machine running FBSD-7.0R and another FBSD host on the same subnet/LAN (maybe with a switch or two somewhere in-between them) with the following results: PCMCIA interface: 500 packets transmitted, 500 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.869/1.351/76.917/4.801 ms USB-ethernet interface: 500 packets transmitted, 500 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.855/1.339/1.956/0.174 ms This is probably nothing definitive, so I'll just leave it to you to interpret the results and draw your own conclusions :-) Regards, vick On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Paul G Webster wrote: > Certainly got some free USB but I heard that the issue with USB and network > adapters was not the throughput per say but the added latency; which could be > an issue the link is used mainly for voip. > > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:43:42 +0100, Vicknesan AYADURAI > wrote: > >> Any free USB ports available? There are USB-ethernet adapters available. >> >> Personally, I've used D-Link's "DUB-E100 High Speed USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet >> Adapter", which worked out of the box on my 7.0R setup. >> >> Regards, >> vick >> >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, OpenSource Team wrote: >> >>> Hey all I currently use a laptop as a firewall; an old ibm thinkpad .. it >>> does pretty well but I will soon have multiple connections to the internet >>> and the laptop only has one PCMCIA card; >>> >>> so one onbard + one pcmcia = 2 ports; >>> >>> I ofc will probably need more as I will have two modems as well as the >>> existing lan; does anyone know of a '2 port' pcmcia ethernet nic; >>> >>> or can think up another way around it? >>> >>> -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >