Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 06:15:13 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Michael Vernick <vernick@CS.SunySB.EDU> Cc: pol@leissner.se, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 100-Mbit Ethernet cards Message-ID: <199602011415.GAA01852@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 08:33:46 EST." <199602011333.IAA26697@cs.sunysb.edu>
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>> The SMC 9332 cards (based on DEC DC21140) work quite well - I use >>them here. I wrote a driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B >>recently, and it also works quite well. > >>From a recent Network Computing performance test, the SMC cards are >one of the slowest 100Mbps on the market. Maximum performance is only >about 70Mbps. I believe (I don't have the article in front of me) >that the Intel cards are on the faster side, up around 80-85Mbps. Under what? DOS, Windows? The driver for FreeBSD performs better than that. It's true that the Intel card performs about 5% better under FreeBSD on the same CPU, but the actual performance figure is more a function of the CPU involved than the card. YMMV. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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