From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 3 00:00:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA25017 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca14-03.ix.netcom.com [204.32.168.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24964 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.7/8.6.9) id XAA12834; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710030659.XAA12834@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: drussell@saturn-tech.com CC: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Doug Russell on Thu, 2 Oct 1997 23:42:43 -0600 (MDT)) Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * From: Doug Russell * 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