From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 11 10:13:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D8115D63 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA25750; Tue, 11 May 1999 13:12:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:12:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199905111712.NAA25750@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet? In-Reply-To: <8447.926441497@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <199905111638.MAA25952@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <8447.926441497@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < As for me, I have tested the driver with Netgear cards. Works great here, > I got 470 Mbps (effective application to application) with ttcp, running > back to back on a PII-350 and a Celeron 300A (overclocked to 337, thus PCI > bus clocked at 37.5 Mhz). The limit in my case is clearly the CPU. However > I did *not* see any better performance when I turned on jumbo > frames. I'm buying one of these cards today ($319.99 from NECX) and will stick it into a machine here on our new Gigabit backbone. I'm particularly interested to test out the VLAN support, since my Secret Plan is to have this one machine serve as the DHCP server for the whole Lab (17 subnets). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message