From owner-freebsd-net Thu Aug 15 16:16:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB3337B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729B743E3B for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7FNGSI57701; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200208152316.g7FNGSI57701@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: 4-port PCI ethernet card? In-Reply-To: <9g9mluogtircgc6hvj0blhth6iflrmd3pv@4ax.com> To: Mike Tancsa Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Marco Molteni , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Tancsa writes: | On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:32:05 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: | >could you suggest/comment on 2-port or 4-port ethernet cards that work with | >FreeBSD -stable? | | Dlink DFE-580TX. Works quite well. I have it in my news server which pushes | over 30Mb/s sustained on 3 of the 4 links. No that's the DFE-570TX (ie the good one) the DFE-580TX is not so good :-( I commited code to make the 580 behave better and it has been MFC'ed into -stable. The 570 uses the ste(4) driver. The Znyx cards work better since the are dc(4) cards. I have a few around here now that you can only buy the 580 cards. So the 580 is stable now but not a top performer. You won't sustain 30mbs RX on the ports you might get 40mbs total. If you run only one port then you can get good speed. The RX engine appears to hog the bus. | http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe580tx/ | | uses the dc driver. Plays well with other devices in the same box (adaptec | SCSI and 3ware IDE RAID) Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message