Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:42 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good dual port NICs? Message-ID: <20020626010142870.AAA740@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.8272.20020625171727@hub.freebsd.org>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:06:44 -0400 (EDT) From: <up@3.am> > Interesting, I had the *exact* same problem with an SMP kernel built on > 4.6RC-1 with a Tyan Tiger's on-board 3C920c (3C905c driver). It never > occured to me that it might be linked to SMP in any way, so I just > returned it and used an Intel L440GX. May not be anywhere near as fast, > but they always work... 3com cards may benchmark faster in some respects but in general they also send more junk packets than any other major vendor's NICs. Modern Intel NICs in general get good and often superior performance ratings and are stable. Last time I had significant problems with Intel NICs was back in the ISA 10-megabit days. (Etherexpress 16, to be exact) I've occasionally had compatibility problems with the Intel (ie Intel NIC couldn't be forced half-duplex), but I've had that with lots of other stuff. In the case of the Intel, it was with a cheapie unconfigurable Netgear switch which could be a major part of the problem. (Whereas I've had problems with the 3coms and expensive switches [HP Procurve 4000M] which couldn't be cured no matter what settings I tried. 3com wouldn't work right at 10Mbit, had to run it at 100Mbit.) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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