Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 15:33:50 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jmb@freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, isp@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-current Proxy Server in our company (vs. Sun) Message-ID: <199601211433.PAA25034@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960121075326.2243B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 21, 96 07:58:17 am
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As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > either way a 3C509 MAY not be good enough. the driver in 1.1.5.1 > lost interrupts occasionally. i dont know if this has been fixed or not. I remember some trouble reports for 3C5x9 cards, too. I had to setup a customer's machine a couple of days ago. It will be run under (ick!) Winglows later, but first it has to be a demonstrat- ion machine for heavy network load, running FreeBSD. (This is to diagnose their network.) The data pump is an oldish PeeCee with an even more oldish Lance card (Isolink 4110 or so), this box has a 3c590 card and an X11 display to run xperfmon++. The first tests were impressive: i'm getting a constant rate between 900 and 1000 KB/s by simply piping /dev/zero through an rsh. :-) The if_vx driver out of -current fits cleanly into 2.1R, as somebody else noted, too. It doesn't seem to count the collisions, however. Other than this, it seems to be a fine card, PCI-based. So i would either pick this one, or one of the 2104X-based boards for a new PCI machine, Andreas. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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