From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 12 19:18:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA22234 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA22227 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA05002 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:18:52 -0700 Received: from [206.104.21.150] by fly.HiWAAY.net; (8.7.5/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id VAA18624; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:17:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199606121205.FAA00899@Root.COM> References: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:58:35 CDT." <199606120458.XAA06651@meno.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:06:41 -0500 To: davidg@Root.COM, steve farrell From: David Kelly Subject: NE2000 (was Re: Kernel panic - double fault) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison