Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:06:41 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: davidg@Root.COM, steve farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: NE2000 (was Re: Kernel panic - double fault) Message-ID: <v03006f02ade52351703c@[206.104.21.150]> In-Reply-To: <199606121205.FAA00899@Root.COM> References: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:58:35 CDT." <199606120458.XAA06651@meno.uchicago.edu>
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At 7:05 AM -0500 6/12/96, David Greenman wrote about NE2000 clones:
> I have one here that I get about 650K/sec with between two FreeBSD machines.
I have one that gets about 325K/sec via ftp from an SGI thru a couple of
gateways. But the fun thing is if I ftp from that SGI in one building and
write via NFS to another in still another building I still get 325K/sec
reported by ftp for a 30M file. On a 486DX33 w/ 8M. You can't tell but I'm
smiling ear to ear. This stuff is simply magic.
Another interesting data point is my luggable 386SX16 in which FreeBSD
finds about 4.5M of RAM (I looked inside and can only find 4M myself). This
machine is so slow that you can count to 3 between typing your login name
and the time the disk stops thrashing and it finally prompts for password.
With an 8-bit 3com Etherlink II this box still produces a respectable
100K/sec via ftp. With its 800M HD it makes a wonderful box to lug to
friend's houses to install FreeBSD from. I keep a spare Etherlink II,
cables, and FreeBSD boot floppy in its case. This makes for a more
impressive show than using CDROM and is more reliable when the target
machine has an ATAPI CDROM.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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