From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 2 12:32:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17541 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:32:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16952 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.cybercity.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05185; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:24:47 +0200 (CEST) To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:18:32 +0200." <9308.875819912@verdi.nethelp.no> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 21:24:47 +0200 Message-ID: <5183.875820287@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <9308.875819912@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no writes: >> I have a machine with 4 of the ZNYX boards (16 ports total) doing the >> "collapsed backbone" thing. Works like a charm, and in difference >> from a cisco that would cost 10 times as much, you can run tcpdump >> and trafshow on it :-) > >Good point. However, I suspect you may not be able to route 16 ports >at full Ethernet speeds. Have you tried saturating multiple segments >with ttcp? So far that is not a concern, and in any real networks, if you were seing that level of trafic, you would upgrade to any >10Mbit/sec media RSN. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."