From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 25 12:58:01 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA09582 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 12:58:01 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA09575 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 12:57:59 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA11580; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 20:57:30 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199507251957.UAA11580@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: Fastest ISA Ethernet Board for FBSD? To: rhh@ct.picker.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 20:57:30 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9507251904.AA23395@elmer.ct.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Jul 25, 95 03:04:12 pm Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 955 Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Randall Hopper who said > > I'm looking for a recommendation for the fastest/least overhead ISA > ethernet board supported by FreeBSD. I'm currently looking at the Allied > Telesyn AT1500, which is based on the PCNet chip and which supports bus > mastering. Some Linux-specific docs I've found rate this board highly, but I > don't about the state of support for this board in FreeBSD. > It should work fine with the lnc driver and the performance of PCNet cards is about as good as there is as long as you don't have contention for bus bandwidth. You'll have lots of problems with them if they can't get hold of the bus for DMA transfers when they need to. Have you got any other bus-masters on the ISA bus? It'll be OK with just a SCSI card. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)