From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 3 13:56:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA12304 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbes.saturn-tech.com (drussell@drussell.internode.net [198.161.228.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA12296 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by hobbes.saturn-tech.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id OAA06250; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:54:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:54:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Satoshi Asami 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? In-Reply-To: <199710030659.XAA12834@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * From: Doug Russell > > 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. I'm not surprised they aren't that hot at 100Mbps.... That's about what I figured. :) > 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). That is quite sick.... Later......