From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 21:38:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE3637B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from undead.dnn.ru (dnn.ru [212.158.164.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BF243F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@dynaweb.ru) Received: from dynaweb.ru (dynaweb.dnn.ru [212.158.164.112]) by undead.dnn.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA58578 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:40:39 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from alex@dynaweb.ru) Message-ID: <3E828ECC.1040903@dynaweb.ru> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:40:28 +0300 From: Alex User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD hackers list References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,HTML_10_20,HTML_MESSAGE,REFERENCES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: alex@dynaweb.ru List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:38:25 -0000 Hi Kirill! That's a real myth about Realtek :0) We're using them on all our FreeBSD machines for over 5 years without any problems. Driver is working fine. Speed and reliability is OK. So I for one can even offer to choose them instead of 3COM as in Russia you can easily get 2 from the 3 3COM cards that is not 3COM indeed :0) Not so for cheap Realteks :0) Good luck David Gilbert wrote: >>>>>>"Kirill" == Kirill Ponomarew writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > >Kirill> Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales >Kirill> wrote: > > > >>>Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the >>>worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of >>>this cards for a communication project ( the reasons is obius, the >>>cost of this cards ) I'm trying to persuade him to by 3com ethernet >>>cards, but I need technical information to demostrate him that it's >>>not a good inversion to buy those kind of cards. >>> >>>Can someone give a good explanation of that or at least where can I >>>find information about it? >>> >>> > >Kirill> please read comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c > >It's worth noting that there's a scale to all this. The driver >comments imply that the card will push 100Mb if you have enough power >in the CPU ... defined as 400Mhz. Given the price of this card >... and the fact that less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that >this is only an issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards >might fit for you. > >We use them extensively in workstations... even diskless. The reason >being that with modern processors, they perform adequately ... and >although they take up extra CPU ... CPUs are rather under-utilized >resources in most workstations. > >Dave. > > >