From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 11:49:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00618 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:49:05 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00610 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 11:49:02 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA08719; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 14:47:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 14:47:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199507111847.OAA08719@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Wanted: 100bT EISA ethernet recommendation Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, dennis wrote: > >> >There are a couple of manufacturers offering EISA cards at the moment. >> >The problem is really driver support under FreeBSD. This is the big >> >question from my point of view. >> > >> You're arguing against yourself here. I hope that EISA is more than 33mbs >> since I get 40mbs on my 10mhz ISA bus. But I was pretty sure that 100bT was >> 100mbs..... > > i have never been able to get more than ~2 MB/s on an isa bus. ;( > I guess you've been using lousy cards. Probably testing DMA or something. Bad MBs you get about 16-25mbs, good ones upper-30's, 0 WS up to 50mbs. db