From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 11:51:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23390 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23372 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id LAA16759; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:51:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.Alameda.net(207.90.181.2) via SMTP by DNS.Lamb.net, id smtpd016755; Tue Jan 27 11:51:33 1998 Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.6/8.7.6) id LAA19012; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:51:13 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199801271951.LAA19012@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet cards for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <34CE61E6@smginc.com> from Adam Turoff at "Jan 27, 98 02:38:00 pm" To: AdamT@smginc.com (Adam Turoff) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:51:13 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk If I recall it correct, Cisco is selling a PCI card for like $150 or so, to give people some hardware to develop with. This card was shown by the Director who is managing the GigaBit Ethernet development at Cisco sometimes last year at the BayLisa meeting. > > >Just wondering if there are any for FreeBSD , how they perform and how > > much they cost? > > Don't have much FreeBSD specific info, but I remember reading an article > within the last 2 weeks about Gigabit NICs, and the results were rather > interesting. > WebWeek perhaps? Sunworld? > > They tested about 3 NICs on platforms that could run 2 OSes - > AlphaServers > for NT/DecUNIX, etc. I remember the average throughput was around > 400Mbit, > with the high water mark being 600Mbit for Irix (?) doing UDP. > > All in all, the NT tests were rather lame seemed to hover around 200Mbit. > Obviously > a problem in the networking stack. :-) > > Some of these cards were PCI, so it's only a case of driver support for > FreeBSD, > and of course cost. > > HTH, > > -- Adam. > > Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073