Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:42:56 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: "Joe" <joe@thebestisp.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980213084256.006916e4@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <01bd3846$509bdce0$b221dccc@subzero.thebestisp.com>
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At 12:12 AM 2/13/98 -0600, Joe wrote: >OK... For starters I am not on this group to knock FreeBSD that would be >STUPID. I use FreeBSD and that is why I am on here. As for the hub things I >concead defeat and am going to try some more testing. The thing is that I >have 3com and SMC hubs here along with a few assorted others and have always >had them top out at about 6Mbps with every card I have tried (and yes the >cables are wired correctly) so at any rate I was not trying to start >anything and I sincerely thought that the information I was giving was >correct. Also several months ago I spoke with a "tech" at 3com about there >officeconnect 10Mbps hub and that is initialy where this theory (the 60%) >began for me. But while I am on this what is the "best" nic? Then you shouldn't have said something about not wanting to pay. :/ AFAIK, 6 Mbps is the max, but not all NICs/hubs work the same under load. Intel EtherXpress Pro 100. No numbers, but I did test collision rates over periods of time with other cards and this one always performed better. Some time after this David Greenman explained why. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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