Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:59:36 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: drussell@saturn-tech.com Cc: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? Message-ID: <199710030659.XAA12834@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971002233829.2359D-100000@586quick166.saturn-tech.com> (message from Doug Russell on Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:42:43 -0600 (MDT))
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* From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> * I have 3 3c905TX cards here, all of which seem to work great. I'm sur * ethey aren't the best, but at 10 Mbps I consistently get 1 Meg/sec FTP * rates between them, something that I didn't usually get with my old DEC 10 * Mbps card. I'm sure at 100 Mbps they wouldn't fare quite as well as the * Intel cards, but I'll probably have migrated them do some Windoze machines * by the time I get a 100 Mbps hub. :) At 100Mbps, Intel and SMC (old 9332DST) cards blow 595TX into chunks. My small test was to create a ccd on both ends of a crossover connection and ftp a large file over. Result: over 10MB/s with Intel/SMC, less than 5MB/s with 3c595TX. Also, the 595TX exhibited very poor performance with a noisy link. TCP performance was like 100~200KB/s on my workstation with a 10BaseT shared net with a long cable. I changed it with an old SMC card (10BaseT), I can get 500KB/s (or some other reasonable number, depending on how congested the line is at that time). All of the above is with 2.2-stable of about a month ago. Satoshi
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