Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 20:57:30 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fastest ISA Ethernet Board for FBSD? Message-ID: <199507251957.UAA11580@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9507251904.AA23395@elmer.ct.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Jul 25, 95 03:04:12 pm
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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)
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