From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 3 12:32:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFDF1595D for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:32:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id NAA25435; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:32:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199905031932.NAA25435@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Decent network cards for 100Mbit? In-Reply-To: <372DF8B2.667763F0@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 3, 1999 1:27:46 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:32:13 -0600 (MDT) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, mtaylor@cybernet.com, doconnor@gsoft.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@prth.pgs.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote... > "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. I've gotten pretty decent performance out of them, and I know one guy that claims to have gotten 98Mbits/sec out of one... Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message