From owner-freebsd-net Sat Sep 2 23: 7:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7222337B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nukemhigh (hybrid-024-221-117-152.phoenix.speedchoice.com [24.221.117.152]) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA17067 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 23:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009030607.XAA17067@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Sender: egravel@mail.earthlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 23:13:34 -0700 To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: Emmanuel Gravel Subject: Re: Increasing network performance In-Reply-To: References: <200009030438.VAA24762@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ah! I knew there were driver issues, but didn't think it would be that bad. Which NIC's would best suit my needs (decent performance, dual homed, P90 CPU, and not too expensive)? Thanks! At 01:58 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: >On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Emmanuel Gravel wrote: >> Does anyone know where I should look to get my box to react a little >> more sanely? If there's anything else you want to know just ask :) > >3c509s are a wee bit CPU hungry. The driver still has a few issues that >make the cards a poor choice for performance under FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message