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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:41:45 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: send performance of rl(4)
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:25:01 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Swapping the rl(4) card for a xl(4) card did the trick. I can now
> saturate the line in both directions. I think I'm going to scrap the
> other rl(4) card in my machine as well and replace it with an fxp(4) card.

Yeah... something I did some years ago - and I'm still happy
with it. I found that - quite in general - the xl and fxp NICs
do have better performance than the rl ones.


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Polytropon
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