From owner-freebsd-small Sat Apr 14 20:55:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from rgmail.regenstrief.org (rgmail.regenstrief.org [134.68.31.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5335737B43F for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org) Received: from aurora.regenstrief.org (aurora.rg.iupui.edu [134.68.31.122]) by rgmail.regenstrief.org (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f3F3uMA05691; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:56:22 -0500 Message-ID: <3AD91B9A.581D977D@aurora.regenstrief.org> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 03:55:06 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow Organization: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dillon wrote: > > sis0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000ff > > Ewww... Is this a good enough Ethernet chipset? I've not had good > luck with any of SiS's stuff. They seem to make, for lack of a nicer > word, crap. "E.B. Dreger" wrote: > I'd imagine that 2x 21143TD would cost just a teeny bit more than 3x Sis. > Personally, I would be more interested in a 2x Tulip model. SiS scares > me, too... Chris Dillon continues: > I would be interested in one if the overall hardware itself is decent > enough, though I realize better hardware means more money. If someone > runs it through some obstacle courses and the "junk" works without any > known problems, I'm for it. I'm not in the position to buy more than > one. I have friends that might be interested as well, though. Could you tell me what's wrong with the National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet chips? I guess for a low cost board, I am happy not to have been given realteks. The Flytech NetPC NC-2 that I use as an interim comes with realtek. What's the problem with the sis driver? So far it worked all nicely for me. These boards come with net-booting by default. It was a breeze to set up -- my first netbooting experience, and I hadn't had that much fun for a while (it's wonderful not having to worry squeezing my bootstrapping package onto a floppy to get a single board with flash up and running, not to mention again how easy the Compact Flash was compared with those DiskOnChip thingies seen elsewhere.) I plan to use these for IPsec encrypting videoconferencing. My testing so far shows that the board can sustain AT LEAST 2 Mb/s per each direction (blowfish-cbc with 256 bit keys.) This 2 Mb/s number may not be a true maximum because my testing involved a pretty crummy 10 Mb/s hub :-(. I understand that the 486 class CPU is sort of a bottleneck for encryption work though, but Soren wanted to build a Hi/Fn based hardware crypto board too. Will be some fiddling with drivers though ... Let me know what benchmark or other "obstacle course" you want to see tested on it. regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message