From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 12:30:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D660F15638 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA19762; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA08869; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:52 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn3.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA27370; Mon, 3 May 99 12:27:46 PDT Message-Id: <372DF8B2.667763F0@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:27:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, mtaylor@cybernet.com, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@prth.pgs.com Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? References: <199905031856.MAA25061@panzer.plutotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > I'd recommend the Intel Pro 100 cards. I've got 30-40 machines with those > cards (Pro/100B and Pro/100+), and haven't had any trouble. > > As Steinar points out, the key is the driver. In this case, the Intel > driver works well. (That's not to say that other drivers don't work, just > that my experience with the fxp driver has been good.) My only complaint about the EEPro 100B cards is paying Intel $65 for a card that has a single $4 chip on it. Bleh. Plus, the performance I've seen hasn't been all that stellar, but I may be doing something wrong. I haven't really tried tuning the system much yet, just doing some simple throughput tests using ftp and tcpblast. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message