From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 24 15:08:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11761 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11606 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06887; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804242204.PAA06887@implode.root.com> To: Open Systems Networking cc: dwilde1@ibm.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:16:17 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:04:57 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >fire. Thats for PCI if you want anything else im not sure. I dont know >about the ATM driver never used it. We should see what david says. I think >even just 4 single port 100B's could outdo by a nice margin whatever >novell used. IMO anyway. David? Generally TYAN MB's I think are the best. >But it all depends on the CPU/Chipset combo. Our networking performance is pretty good, but there are still some scalability issues to be resolved. For hardware, the next step beyond 100Mbps fast ethernet is gigabit ethernet. I've been approached now by 3 different vendors to write drivers for their gigabit ethercards. No progress yet, but things seem to be happening. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message