From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 13:26:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECAA37C102 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA68367; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:26:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <20000720132601.C67647@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:08:01PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:08:01PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > And after that, some of nics which are unlikely to be found in alphas > > > (rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, vr, wb, xl, le, fxp). > > > > Overall I could go this way, but not with the list above. Right now `xl' > > is the best Alpha NIC we have. With `xl' removed, I wouldn't be able to > > install on my AS 250 as it is on a 100-mbit only switch via an `xl'. > > `xl' is the only NIC in my PC164SX box. > > Huh? I've found de and dc to be satisfactory. Yes, if you happen to have a `dc' or `de' card laying around. Please don't forget the PC164SX comes with no no-board NIC. So the assembler of the machine is able to install their favorite NIC (or some cheapass Fry's POS). Or did you mean the performance issue? Only `xl' and `fxp' can do zero-copy on coming packets (as wpaul told me yesterday). wpaul seems to prefer the `xl' cards, and I want to use the NIC he supports the best, so I prefer to use `xl' when possible. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message