From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 13 06:47:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03315 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA03308 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id IAA28321; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:48:56 -0600 Received: from dial193-23.mixcom.com(207.250.193.23) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma028211; Fri Feb 13 08:48:37 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980213084256.006916e4@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:42:56 -0600 To: "Joe" , From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions In-Reply-To: <01bd3846$509bdce0$b221dccc@subzero.thebestisp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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